From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Aug 18 12: 1:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id A75EC1513F; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4D11CD8AA; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation in 3.2 current In-Reply-To: <37BA5847.4953D0C@scc.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Yes. COMPAT_LINUX disappeared 3 years ago. The reason that you can still > use it is because it reappeared for the purpose of compiling LINT (IIRC). > The fact that it still can be used to actually built a working kernel is > *not* deliberate, but more a question of "luck". The handbook entry at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/linuxemu.html and the LINT entry should perhaps be updated to note that COMPAT_LINUX is deprecated. I think I still have it in my kernel from 2.1 days. The handbook entry also refers to LKMs (and modload, etc), and the kernel option "LINUX" is not documented in LINT. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message