Re: Fwd: Status and future of 3rd party ABI compatibility layer

2011-03-03 Thread David Holland
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:40:44AM +, Andrew Doran wrote: With modules now basically working we should either retire or move some of these items to pkgsrc so that the interested parties maintain them. An awful lot of the compat stuff is now very compartmentalised, with not much more

Re: Fwd: Status and future of 3rd party ABI compatibility layer

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew Doran
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:25:07AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:13:36AM +0200, haad wrote: With solaris.kmod we are compatible with solaris kernel, (we should be able to load solaris kernel modules). Have you actually tried this? I am pretty sure it

Re: Fwd: Status and future of 3rd party ABI compatibility layer

2011-03-01 Thread Antti Kantee
On Tue Mar 01 2011 at 09:55:38 +, Andrew Doran wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:25:07AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:13:36AM +0200, haad wrote: With solaris.kmod we are compatible with solaris kernel, (we should be able to load solaris kernel

Fwd: Status and future of 3rd party ABI compatibility layer

2011-02-28 Thread haad
Hi, On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: Hi all, there is a lot of code in sys/compat and changes in the kernel API tend to require changes in this code too. I would like to know which emulations are actually in use, what the status of emulation

Re: Fwd: Status and future of 3rd party ABI compatibility layer

2011-02-28 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:13:36AM +0200, haad wrote: With solaris.kmod we are compatible with solaris kernel, (we should be able to load solaris kernel modules). Have you actually tried this? I am pretty sure it would not work. It appears to me that solaris.kmod includes shims that provide