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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Novembre <novembre@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Linux compatibility layer's wiki page
Message-ID:  <20080214194749.u9soqtthws0wsock@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org>
References:  <3b47caa90802121939r61098f1dj4705d06d894c4aaf@mail.gmail.com> <20080213091552.GA20760@freebsd.org>

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Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> (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.

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