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Date:      Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:48:05 +0100
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net>

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Hello,

since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's,
it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD
system (userland, including all third party programs) on top
of the Linux kernel.

This would be somewhat the reverse of /boot/kernel/linux.ko,
some kind of adaptation layer between Linux kernel and our libc,
loader etc...

If we had this feature (perhaps as a port), it would be
convenient to boot into Linux kernel when FreeBSD-non-supported
hardware is needed; of course keeping FreeBSD kernel as the
default, high-performance optimized one for all normal cases.

Perhaps someone's already working on this, but I can't find
any hints or pointers to it.

Thanks,
-cpghost.

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