From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 28 18:56:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C058637B400; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB37A7A; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:56:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id SAA20076; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:56:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A24705A.2CD9F280@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:56:26 -0500 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Somebody broke the linux module on the Alpha. References: <20001128163140.A43087@dragon.nuxi.com> <14884.23034.111469.296831@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3A245E45.B9CD44F7@cup.hp.com> <14884.24258.132073.308507@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > The following patch "fixes" the problem, but I have no clue if it > > > is safe for x86, buildworlds, etc: > > > > At this time the best fix is to remove the auto-generation. It also > > allows us to compile the Linuxulator into the kernel, which I think is > > necessary (what applies to i386, applies to Alpha as well. Otherwise the > > Alpha would be nothing more than a secundary port). > > Excuse me? Why the preoccupation with compiling it into the kernel? Because we say that we unconditionally support the COMPAT_LINUX option, while in fact we don't. I think it's necessary, because we shouldn't have a different policy for each architecture. There's no technical reason to not support COMPAT_LINUX on the Alpha (there's a technical reason to not support it on IA-64, because the Linuxulator hasn't been ported yet). > What advantage is there to this? Not everybody likes modules and we shouldn't gratuitously prevent those users from compiling the Linuxulator into the kernel. The fact that Alpha != i386 doesn't mean that we have different rules, right? The Linuxulator port is simply not finished. We're just halfway through... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message