HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed

[Sean C. Farley]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Roman Divacky wrote:

> 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

Hmm.  I thought it was, but the wiki said otherwise.

Maybe the wiki is referring to MFC'ing to RELENG_6?

Sean
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