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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:20:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        bsd-lists@bsdforge.com, david@catwhisker.org, mexas@bris.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: <118>sysctl: unknown oid 'sysctl compat.linux.osrelease' at line 11: No such file or directory
Message-ID:  <201503121520.t2CFKP1N055036@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2eefaea5c4fc8fe5e0372429cdf0ba74@ultimatedns.net>

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>From bsd-lists@bsdforge.com Thu Mar 12 15:16:15 2015
>> >From david@catwhisker.org Thu Mar 12 12:44:43 2015
>> >
>> >What does output of "kldstat | grep linux" look like?
>> >
>> >Expected:
>> >
>> >g1-251(11.0-C)[1] kldstat |grep linux
>> > 2    3 0xc17a4000 74c90    linux.ko
>> >g1-251(11.0-C)[2]=20
>> >
>> >
>> >But if it's not loaded, I suspect that might be a valid reason for
>> >the OID to fail to be recognized
>> 
>> # kldstat
>> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>>  1    9 0xffffffff80200000 e33630   kernel
>>  2    1 0xffffffff81034000 e10350   nvidia.ko
>>  3    1 0xffffffff81e45000 2ba58    bwn_v4_ucode.ko
>> # kldload linux
>> kldload: can't load linux: module already loaded or in kernel
>> # 
>> 
>> I have in the kernel config file:
>> 
>> options COMPAT_43
>> options COMPAT_LINUX32
>> options LINPROCFS
>> options LINSYSFS
>> 
>> Perhaps I also need to add
>>  options COMPAT_LINUX ?
>By virtue of the fact that kldstat(8) returns nvidia. You
>can be assured that linux has already been loaded, or
>rather, that linux is already available. Which suggests to
>me that it is already part of your kernel. dmesg(8)
>(/var.run/dmesg.boot) might well reveal that, for you.
>Perhaps even in /var/log/messages.

$ grep -i linux /var/run/dmesg.boot 
$

What does this tell me?

Thanks

Anton




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