From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 21:47:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17CC16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:47:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3979F43D48 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:47:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD7EDC8E9; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:44:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:48:05 +0100 From: cpghost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:47:07 -0000 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. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/