From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 15:13:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA20397 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:13:46 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA20378 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:13:40 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA20414; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:13:26 -0800 To: Thomas Graichen cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Nov 1995 22:45:34 +0100." <9511052145.AA24092@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 15:13:25 -0800 Message-ID: <20412.815613205@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > * one thing that looks very intersting is the ccd-driver (concatenated > disk driver) - using this driver it is possible to realize I think someone is already working on bringing this in? > * another thing is the COMPAT_FREEBSD option (... and code) - i think > it would be a good idea to have something similar for NetBSD > (COMPAT_NETBSD) in FreeBSD - i think it should be relatively easy to Uh. Why? :-) I believe the big reason for them having COMPAT_FREEBSD to run our packages, which is a perfectly reasonable thing. From the opposite point of view, I can't think of *any* applications (save AFS, which isn't even an app) that run only on NetBSD and aren't available in FreeBSD versions. Not arrogance, just a simple statement of fact. To add such an option without a clear reason why would simply be creeping featurism! > -current in the next days) but i think it only works with linux-aout - > but linux now is moving to linux-elf - and if i remember right - the > NetBSD version of the linux-compat stuff also supports elf - maybe > worth looking (but i think the one(s) who is (are) working on the > linux-emu has done it ...) Steven Wallace is already working on this.. Jordan