Re: Using Linux emulation in FreeBSD to run a Debian Linux userland

2012-07-14 Thread Petr Salinger
The Linux emulation isn't intended to be a complete replacement for native ABI. It's just a layer that upstream maintains in order to run a specific set of applications. This layer is severely limited in other areas and can't be used as a "general ABI for everything" as you envisioned (that is, u

Re: Using Linux emulation in FreeBSD to run a Debian Linux userland

2012-07-14 Thread Richard Yao
On 07/14/2012 07:57 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > 2012/7/13 Richard Yao : >> I understand that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD currently builds software using >> the FreeBSD ABI. It might be easier to make some changes to FreeBSD's >> linux emulation and Debian Linux's packages so that the FreeBSD kernel >> could

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Re: Possible problems in your Debian packages

2012-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
2012/7/5 Steven Chamberlain : > I guessed that this (and other low-severity bugs) were flagged like this > simply because they are usertagged with 'kfreebsd'? In which case that > may be a bit OTT. Oh, I see -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using Linux emulation in FreeBSD to run a Debian Linux userland

2012-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
2012/7/13 Richard Yao : > I understand that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD currently builds software using > the FreeBSD ABI. It might be easier to make some changes to FreeBSD's > linux emulation and Debian Linux's packages so that the FreeBSD kernel > could boot a Linux userland using the same binaries used

Re: xserver-xorg-video-nv driver for GNU/kFreeBSD

2012-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
2012/7/13 Steven Chamberlain : > Hi Petr, > > On 13/07/12 20:49, Petr Salinger wrote: >> I dist-upgraded to wheezy today. My graphics card works with vesa >> driver, but only with 4:3 aspect, which is really bad for 16:9 LCD :-(. > > I'm curious: does the non-free driver for FreeBSD build/work? N