[WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's,
> it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD
> system (userland, including all third party programs) on top
> of the Linux kernel.
> 
> This would be somewhat the reverse of /boot/kernel/linux.ko,
> some kind of adaptation layer between Linux kernel and our libc,
> loader etc...
> 
> If we had this feature (perhaps as a port), it would be
> convenient to boot into Linux kernel when FreeBSD-non-supported
> hardware is needed; of course keeping FreeBSD kernel as the
> default, high-performance optimized one for all normal cases.
>
> Perhaps someone's already working on this, but I can't find
> any hints or pointers to it.

There's a debian project to do this, but it's not likely anything that
will be merged into FreeBSD (let alone available as a port).

Kris
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