From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 20: 2:51 2002 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 7014E37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6EE543E42 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3626166E66; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:02:49 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: linux_load="YES" Message-ID: <20021012030249.GA73064@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021011190807.B198-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021011190807.B198-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:09:45PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > In my /boot/loader.conf I have: linux_load=3D"YES" >=20 > I know I can run linux (all flavors?) binaries, but does the line above > also mean I can compile hardware drivers that sourceforge.net people have > gotten to work on Linux? Is there a good FAQ to read about this topic? No, it's userland binary compatibility, not source or kernel module compatibility. There's a good handbook entry about how Linux compatibility works in FreeBSD. Kris --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9p5DYWry0BWjoQKURAs2vAJsEpx5qlrA0mqiJMBtKP2kKL5fLjwCfcAwM uf7G9rXLC+g1geRYE+Ze6CM= =m8k/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message