Linuxulator on RELENG_7 causes games to hang

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Marcus von Appen <mva at sysfault.org> (from Tue, 4 Dec 2007  
11:28:58 +0100):

> On, Sun Dec 02, 2007, Roman Divacky wrote:
>
>> > servers. Unfortunately I had no chance to track it down on RELENG_7 so
>> > far - getting back in time turned out to be a real pity and installing a
>> > clean system for every dated cvs snapshot is more than a pain.
>>
>> you have to update only the kernel.. that should not be such a big problem
>
> In fact it was. The kernel did not like to be built without cleaning
> anything else first. Various compile time errors occured, which made it
> impossible to update it separately from the rest - no idea why that
> happened, I guess, that some missing environment setting messed up the
> tree.
>
> Anyhow, I could track the RELENG_6 issue down to the changes made on
> 2007-07-08, which were a big MFC made by netchild. A kernel build
> starting from the 8th does not work, the 7th is still okay.
>
> I'm starting once more with RELENG_7 now I have an idea about the
> time frame of RELENG_6.

You have to look up the timeframe of the corresponding changes in 7-current.
Just go to cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/sys/ and have a look at the commit  
history for compat/linux/* and {i386,amd64}/linux{,32}/* to find  
suitable points in time to look at.

Bye,
Alexander.

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