From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 18:48:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACDE16A41A; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B50913C442; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:48:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5523F.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.82.63]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C52E2E342; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14E89371B; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id m1EIln8X035718; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from ANancy-154-1-28-46.w83-194.abo.wanadoo.fr (ANancy-154-1-28-46.w83-194.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.194.92.46]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20080214194749.u9soqtthws0wsock@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Roman Divacky References: <3b47caa90802121939r61098f1dj4705d06d894c4aaf@mail.gmail.com> <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.5) / FreeBSD-8.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-15.4, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10, SMILEY -0.50) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Novembre Subject: Re: Linux compatibility layer's wiki page X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:48:07 -0000 Quoting Roman Divacky (from Wed, 13 Feb 2008 =20 10:15:52 +0100): > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:12PM -0600, Novembre wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just wanted to mention that the wiki page for Linux compatibility >> layer ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel ) has not been updated >> for about 5 months. I was wondering about the status of the project >> right now, whether it's ready to use, etc. > > its been ready to use for many years :) nothing much happened over > the 5 months... but there are things in the queue waiting to be commited. We could do a new run with a recent LTP release and update the LP =20 page... unfortunately I don't have the time and not enough resources =20 for this. > most notably - *at syscalls (linuxulator and native ones), this is quite > close to be commited (waiting for me to answer kib@ some questions which > I hope to do really soon now), also epoll seems to be ready for the prime > time but I havent found anyone who can review/commit that (it's really > trivial so I think anyone can do that) Post the epoll patch here on emulation. > overall the status of linuxulator is really good I'd say, especially > with the recent fix to mmap() We should mention that we have a known bug in the linux getents(). > There's a plan to switch over to 2.6 emulation on default once 7.0 > is released More precisely: after *at() and epoll hits the tree, we plan to switch =20 to 2.6 in _current_ (after a HEADS UP to current@). Bye, Alexander. --=20 I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. =09=09-- W.C. Fields http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137