Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:12:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r50605 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu Message-ID: <201707292012.v6TKCLlI039728@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Jul 29 20:12:21 2017 New Revision: 50605 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50605 Log: Note that 64-bit linuxulator cannot be statically linked into the kernel Reported by: kan, R. Tyler Croy <tyler@monkeypox.org> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml Sat Jul 29 16:09:40 2017 (r50604) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml Sat Jul 29 20:12:21 2017 (r50605) @@ -148,11 +148,10 @@ <secondary>COMPAT_LINUX</secondary> </indexterm> - <para>Users who prefer to statically link &linux; binary - compatibility into a custom kernel should add - <literal>options COMPAT_LINUX</literal> to their custom kernel - configuration file. Compile and install the new kernel as - described in <xref linkend="kernelconfig"/>.</para> + <para>Since the Linux binary compatibility layer has gained support + for running both 32- and 64-bit Linux binaries (on 64-bit x86 hosts), + it is no longer possible to link the emulation functionality statically + into a custom kernel.</para> <sect2 xml:id="linuxemu-libs-manually"> <title>Installing Additional Libraries Manually</title>
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