HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed

Roman Divacky rdivacky at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 2 11:34:46 PDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:33:42PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 
> >Hello List,
> >
> >I've just committed new Linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports. That was 
> >a long awaited commit. Thanks for all who helped me here. 47 new ports 
> >are introduced as well as a new linux ports infrastructure which made 
> >it possible to co-exist ports from different linux distros at our 
> >ports tree. The worked lasted for more than a year.
> 
> Thank you to all involved.
> 
> *snip*
> 
> >As you may already know, only 8-CURRENT is compatible with 
> >compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16. FreeBSD-7.x is not fully compatible due 
> >to lack of some syscalls, etc. Those syscalls cannot be MFCed due to 
> >native FreeBSD ABI breakage. Some applications may work fine though.
> 
> What cannot be MFC'd besides TLS and NPTL?  For syscalls that cannot be 

linuxulator in RELENG_7 supports TLS/NPTL


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