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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