From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 22:46:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F55B16A417 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490E013C45D for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:46:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4791067487F; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4AGvbaTElt1J; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1C0674852; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:12 +0100 (CET) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m1EMkCrK028686; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:11 +0100 From: Roman Divacky To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20080214224611.GA28632@freebsd.org> References: <3b47caa90802121939r61098f1dj4705d06d894c4aaf@mail.gmail.com> <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org> <20080214194749.u9soqtthws0wsock@webmail.leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080214194749.u9soqtthws0wsock@webmail.leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compatibility layer's wiki page X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:46:26 -0000 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:47:49PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Roman Divacky (from Wed, 13 Feb 2008 > 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 > page... unfortunately I don't have the time and not enough resources > for this. I doubt that much (if anything at all) changed > >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. sure... after I get some sleep I'll do that ;) > >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 > to 2.6 in _current_ (after a HEADS UP to current@). I dont think that this is absolutely necessary but it makes sense... I am not sure if the epoll() should be included too (so far no review has been done and I dont htink its wise to delay the switch because of epoll()) roman