From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Aug 18 12:41:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A8915299; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from mail.scc.nl (i051.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.112.52]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25063; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:40:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01937; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:39:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <37BB0C07.D8ACF4D2@scc.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:39:51 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation in 3.2 current References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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. I'm mistaken. option "COMPAT_LINUX" is in fact supported. Sorry for the confusement. > The handbook entry also refers to LKMs (and modload, etc), and the kernel > option "LINUX" is not documented in LINT. According to bde option LINUX should not have returned. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message