linux 2.6 on 7.0-RELEASE

Novembre novembre at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 02:58:53 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:58:34PM -0500, Novembre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know that 2.4 is the default Linux kernel to use on 7.0-RELEASE, but is
> it
> > possible to use the Linux 2.6 compatibility layer or the changes needed
> to
> > run it only exists in 7.0-STABLE? I couldn't find any information in the
> > wiki page ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel/ ) --- it was last
> updated
> > in September 2007.
>
> you can use 2.6 emulation in 7.0R, although I'd recommend using 7-STABLE.
>
> I'll add some info on the wiki page that the information there is out of
> date..
> it confuses more than it informs
>


thanks :) is there something specific that i should do to be able to run 2.6
emulation on 7.0-RELEASE? is there any guide somewhere online about it? the
handbook, I believe, is talking about the default 2.4 emulation, am I right?


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