From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 00:55:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 368D116A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:55:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B850F43D49 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:55:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C3D1A3C24; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA1D25428B; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:55:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:55:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: cpghost Message-ID: <20060208005552.GA13426@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:55:54 -0000 --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--