Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:55:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20060208005552.GA13426@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > Hello, >=20 > since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, > it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD > system (userland, including all third party programs) on top > of the Linux kernel. >=20 > This would be somewhat the reverse of /boot/kernel/linux.ko, > some kind of adaptation layer between Linux kernel and our libc, > loader etc... >=20 > If we had this feature (perhaps as a port), it would be > convenient to boot into Linux kernel when FreeBSD-non-supported > hardware is needed; of course keeping FreeBSD kernel as the > default, high-performance optimized one for all normal cases. > > Perhaps someone's already working on this, but I can't find > any hints or pointers to it. There's a debian project to do this, but it's not likely anything that will be merged into FreeBSD (let alone available as a port). Kris --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6UGYWry0BWjoQKURAmLtAJ9F7UFV6b7ahYdSFrUYUQPQkUsVqgCguOCp AFLHzaZVU4tmohFMmLJfQLA= =1urc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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