From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 17 15:15:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9C516A4EB for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:15:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=julian=377da0077@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA5143D6B for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:15:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from prvs=julian=377da0077@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.6]) ([10.251.60.65]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 17 Aug 2006 08:15:39 -0700 Message-ID: <44E4881A.3050907@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:15:38 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Divacky Roman References: <44E1E85D.5070805@FreeBSD.org> <20060815180713.6a4ee2e6@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20060815212143.G45647@fledge.watson.org> <20060816002328.365a14cd@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20060816090653.GA820@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060816132539.owwerbnw0okwc8wo@netchild.homeip.net> <20060817080533.GA845@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060817122534.e57aqlbrwwogg8ko@netchild.homeip.net> <44E4454B.2080606@elischer.org> <20060817133721.h4cbucizcw8wc88k@netchild.homeip.net> <20060817140122.GA90642@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060817140122.GA90642@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexander Leidinger , current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: starting to commit linuxolator (SoC 2006) changes... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:15:42 -0000 Divacky Roman wrote: >>Anyone with interest in this is free to take care of this, as long as >>they coordinate with the people which work on the current >>infrastructure on emulation@ regarding the userland/security stuff and >>the kernel. Until someone stands up and shows results/progress, this >>is scheduled to vanish in the future. >> >> > > >I personally see this 3 possible ways: > >1) leave it as it is (ie. as what will be commited shortly), this means runtime >checking for osrelease sysctl and behaving according to it > >2) introduce option LINUX_24 or something like that to make this a compile time build > >3) remove the 2.4 completely saying that "if you want 2.4 emulation downgrade fbsd as well". >notice that this is 100% ok because linux itself doesnt support 2.4 emulation on 2.6 kernel. > > I think that would be a great selling point.. especially if two processes could run the different releases at the same time.. "even linux needs vmware to do this..". >I would go with number 3. > >roman > >