Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:55:53 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare port(s) ... Message-ID: <14542.37673.790614.348267@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <38CE7645.F59CB8DA@cup.hp.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003140949370.46929-100000@thelab.hub.org> <38CE7645.F59CB8DA@cup.hp.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar writes: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Is anyone working on getting the rtc/linux_procfs ports brought into the > > main stream, as well as the vmware port itself upgraded? > > Having a Linux compatible procfs for Linux binaries has been on my TODO > list for some time. I'm not currently working on that, though. I > personally prefer a procfs implementation that doesn't need to be loaded > as a module, but is part of the Linuxulator itself and also uses /proc > as the mount point. Such an implementation is less confusing (ie doesn't > generate a stream of questions of which the answer is: "load > linux_procfs" :-). The expected infrastructural changes in the kernel to > have the proper procfs implementation depending on the ABI also helps > other emulators. Such an approach seems beneficial... > > Thoughts, ideas or other comments? > Sure. Ditch our native procfs & adopt the linux procfs interface as standard (eg, mount it on /proc). This would allow us to do away with most of the groveling around in kvm & thereby most of the problems caused by running kernels which are mismatched to their userlands. As a long-time -current user, I'm really quite jealous that you can mix-n-match linux kernels & userlands. Sure, there would be a few more gnu programs in src/contrib, but it would be so much easier to deal with. (ducks, runs for cover..) Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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