svn commit: r50605 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu

[Benjamin Kaduk]

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Jul 29 20:12:21 2017
New Revision: 50605
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50605

Log:
  Note that 64-bit linuxulator cannot be statically linked into the kernel
  
  Reported by:	kan, R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox.org>

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml	Sat Jul 29 16:09:40 2017	(r50604)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml	Sat Jul 29 20:12:21 2017	(r50605)
@@ -148,11 +148,10 @@
       <secondary>COMPAT_LINUX</secondary>
     </indexterm>
 
-    <para>Users who prefer to statically link &linux; binary
-      compatibility into a custom kernel should add
-      <literal>options COMPAT_LINUX</literal> to their custom kernel
-      configuration file.  Compile and install the new kernel as
-      described in <xref linkend="kernelconfig"/>.</para>
+    <para>Since the Linux binary compatibility layer has gained support
+      for running both 32- and 64-bit Linux binaries (on 64-bit x86 hosts),
+      it is no longer possible to link the emulation functionality statically
+      into a custom kernel.</para>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="linuxemu-libs-manually">
       <title>Installing Additional Libraries Manually</title>