Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux compatibility layer's wiki page Message-ID: <20080214194749.u9soqtthws0wsock@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org> References: <3b47caa90802121939r61098f1dj4705d06d894c4aaf@mail.gmail.com> <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> (from Wed, 13 Feb 2008 =20 10:15:52 +0100): > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:12PM -0600, Novembre wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just wanted to mention that the wiki page for Linux compatibility >> layer ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel ) has not been updated >> for about 5 months. I was wondering about the status of the project >> right now, whether it's ready to use, etc. > > its been ready to use for many years :) nothing much happened over > the 5 months... but there are things in the queue waiting to be commited. We could do a new run with a recent LTP release and update the LP =20 page... unfortunately I don't have the time and not enough resources =20 for this. > most notably - *at syscalls (linuxulator and native ones), this is quite > close to be commited (waiting for me to answer kib@ some questions which > I hope to do really soon now), also epoll seems to be ready for the prime > time but I havent found anyone who can review/commit that (it's really > trivial so I think anyone can do that) Post the epoll patch here on emulation. > overall the status of linuxulator is really good I'd say, especially > with the recent fix to mmap() We should mention that we have a known bug in the linux getents(). > There's a plan to switch over to 2.6 emulation on default once 7.0 > is released More precisely: after *at() and epoll hits the tree, we plan to switch =20 to 2.6 in _current_ (after a HEADS UP to current@). Bye, Alexander. --=20 I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. =09=09-- W.C. Fields http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080214194749.u9soqtthws0wsock>