From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 02:12:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 243D316A422 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 02:12:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8DB43D45 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 02:12:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC881A3C19; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EAF5A5425A; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:12:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:12:45 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Urs Schroffenegger Message-ID: <20060208021244.GA14826@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <20060208005552.GA13426@xor.obsecurity.org> <43E9463C.6000001@lampshade.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43E9463C.6000001@lampshade.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [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: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:12:49 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:15:40AM +0100, Urs Schroffenegger wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > >=20 > > > >>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. > >> =20 > >> > > > >There's a debian project to do this, but it's not likely anything that > >will be merged into FreeBSD (let alone available as a port). > > > >Kris > >=20 > > > IMHO, the debian project seems to be exactly the inverse of that: a=20 > freebsd kernel with GNU userland. (More info here:=20 > http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) Sorry, you're right. I don't know of anyone working on the OP's project. Kris --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6VOcWry0BWjoQKURAiJwAKCDN3P+NGYWQmWMHlxfdCmNXyEhCQCgooPk l/K0u2SqGfj65KyBBVqFqCc= =rPnC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--