LinuxKPI debugfs Port
- Reply: Mark Johnston : "Re: LinuxKPI debugfs Port"
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:38:48 UTC
Hi there, I am working on porting Intel's igt-gpu-tools drm graphics driver testing suite to FreeBSD and I ran into some issues regarding debugfs. I spoke to manu@ who told me that CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is required for the testing to work properly. I started working on a debugfs port and quickly got confused about what manu@ meant by implementing "CONFIG_DEBUG_FS". Some quick internet searching says that CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is a Linux kernel configuration flag. I am curious how I would go about implementing this into FreeBSD. I copied the Linux debugfs source code into a new repository and attempted to compile it on FreeBSD as a kernel module: https://github.com/jakesfreeland/debugfs-freebsd Of course I was met with many, many incompatibility errors. I proceeded to copy the required `sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux` headers into my repository and I was met with two options: 1. continue modifying the LinuxKPI headers and commit my modifications to src. 2. re-engineer the debugfs source code to comply with the preexisting LinuxKPI headers. Many problems come with both approaches. First, if I modify the LinuxKPI headers, I'd be "copying" over some code from Linux's GPLv2 headers. I do not know how much I can "copy" before legal issues arise. Second, if I re-engineer the debugfs source code, I am revolting against what LinuxKPI stands for: running Linux code with little-to-no modification. I don't know what the correct approach is here. I also discovered that lindebugfs, a curtailed version of Linux's debugfs, already exists in FreeBSD's src. I am led to believe that this is exclusively used under the Linuxulator so it wouldn't help me. Is this correct? Thank you so much, Jake Freeland