Re: Absent Linux Libraries

Hi Mark,

It looks like igt-gpu-tools has changed quite a bit since your
modifications were made.
I found the remnants of your work on Github before starting my port. I am
going to try
to work around those libraries for now, but I'll probably end up porting
procps and using
linprocfs as you suggested.

I appreciate the pointers and am thankful to have your old port for
direction.

Jake Freeland

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:18 PM Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:51:48PM -0500, Jake Freeland wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm in the process of porting Intel's DRM driver testing suite,
> > igt-gpu-tools,
> > to FreeBSD and I'm not finding some Linux-specific runtime libraries in
> the
> > ports tree.
> >
> > The two that I'm having difficulty with are
> > * libkmod
> > * libprocps
> >
> > I've tried querying the pkg database using the pkg-provides pkg plugin:
> > `pkg provides libkmod` returns nothing
> > `pkg provides libprocps` returns nothing
> > I have tried different naming variations and none yield results.
> >
> > I don't want to rely on the Linux compatibility layer for these
> libraries.
> > Am I out of luck or am I missing something in plain sight?
>
> As far as I know, those libraries are Linux-specific.  A long time ago I
> did a very rough port of that test suite while trying to track down some
> bugs in i915kms, and I remember being able to simply stub out references
> to those two libraries.  That might be harder to do today, or not.
>
> It might be possible to port those libraries to FreeBSD and make use of
> linprocfs since they both use (Linux's) /proc extensively.  But I'm not
> sure how much work this would be.  I don't think the Linux compatibility
> layer would help here unless you're planning on running everything under
> the Linux compatibility layer.
>