Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:33:42 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904021222330.20710@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <23488525@bb.ipt.ru> References: <23488525@bb.ipt.ru>
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hello List, > > I've just committed new Linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports. That was > a long awaited commit. Thanks for all who helped me here. 47 new ports > are introduced as well as a new linux ports infrastructure which made > it possible to co-exist ports from different linux distros at our > ports tree. The worked lasted for more than a year. Thank you to all involved. *snip* > As you may already know, only 8-CURRENT is compatible with > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16. FreeBSD-7.x is not fully compatible due > to lack of some syscalls, etc. Those syscalls cannot be MFCed due to > native FreeBSD ABI breakage. Some applications may work fine though. What cannot be MFC'd besides TLS and NPTL? For syscalls that cannot be MFC'd, can calls be written that help to some degree without breaking ABI? The wiki page[1] is incomplete on what changes are to be MFC'd. I can say that fstatat64() seems popular (called by rm) in /var/log/messages. Sean 1. http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel -- scf@FreeBSD.org
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