Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:55:27 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: wine-freebsd@hub.org, Kris Moore <krismoore@comcast.net>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thr.c syscalls.master src/sys/sys Message-ID: <46C9E39F.8010009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46C9AE64.50705@samsco.org> References: <200708160526.l7G5Qg0b008022@repoman.freebsd.org> <46C4FD02.3090708@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708162216530.1396@sea.ntplx.net> <200708182118.37998.tijl@ulyssis.org> <20070818204223.D1234@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708182050070.13363@sea.ntplx.net> <46C7A9A4.5090404@samsco.org> <20070819095302.D66918@fledge.watson.org> <46C863C5.6090906@comcast.net><20070820093009.GE87451@elvis.mu.org> <222044094-1187603330-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1638751523-@bxe027.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <46C9AE64.50705@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > Having it as a loadable module that is essentially private to PC-BSD > (though open source, of course) will lead to questions of why Wine works > in PC-BSD and not FreeBSD. That's fine if your intention is to create > a fork of FreeBSD, but I don't know if that's what you really want. There is no need for it to be private - we can just easily have it in the same port or in separate port (wine_kmod?) and get wine RUN_DEPEND on it. We have been using this scheme with VmWare for ages now and everybody seems to be happy. Indeed, as Robert has pointed out, wine is special in its needs to access some kernel internals to emulate sufficiently different threading model. Those internals are not and probably will never be exposed via POSIX layer, so that loadable module approach makes lot of sense. -Maxim
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