jail and compat_linux plans?

[Michael Dexter]

Peter,

>>Are jail and compat_linux being maintained in the PPC tree?
>
>  I believe that jail will "just work" since it's not PPC-specific 
>(and in the GENERIC kernel).

It will be the first thing I check when I get PPC up. On a Pismo 
preferably and a mini if necessary.

>  There's not been any work on compat_linux though, despite the 
>excellent set of articles by Emmanuel Dreyfus on NetBSD/PPC linux 
>emu -
>
>    http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/05/10/linux_bsd.html

I have looked for a compat_linux home page for years and only come up 
with sources and mailing lists. I recall seeing mention of 
compat_linux updates in 5.3/5.4 (to RedHat 8) and the "slippery 
slope" of implementing anything too current and I am not sure why RH8 
was chosen over RH9 given that they both use the 2.4 kernel.

>I have glanced at the linux_base ports, though none really seem to 
>be the right distro for PPC. Any ideas on that ?

The default linuxulator has always used RedHat and I suspect that 
will continue with Fedora. The inclusion of PPC support in Fedora 
Core 4 may answer your question. I will not speculate as to what this 
means for the future of the Yellow Dog Linux distribution.

Fedora on mini:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/mac-mini/

Which opens the door to compat_linux "the hard way:"
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/16/Big_Scary_Daemons.html


I am currently experimenting with compat_linux jails and hence my question.

Along the same lines are compat_mach/darwin:
http://hcpnet.free.fr/applebsd.html

And effectively the Mac jail for Linux: http://maconlinux.org/ that 
has been ported to Mac: http://maconmac.bastix.net/

Licensing notwithstanding, might this the feasible on FreeBSD?

Michael.