Re: What is COMPAT_FREEBSD in kernel config?

To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>, port-i386%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: What is COMPAT_FREEBSD in kernel config?
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:19 -0800

On 1/2/14, 12:25 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:

I notice a line
options COMPAT_FREEBSD
in GENERIC kernel configuration file for i386, but not amd64 or sparc.

What does this do, and how do I run FreeBSD i386 binaries?  chroot to FreeBSD 
installation?

In case of chroot, what about device nodes?  FreeBSD has much more advanced 
way, dynamic as opposed to preassigned.

I could also ask about COMPAT_LINUX.

Tom

COMPAT_FREEBSD, last I tried, had just enough compatibility to allow therunning of very old (freebsd 4 and earlier) statically-linked freebsdbinaries on i386 - its primary use case, as I recall, was to run theFreeBSD version of tw_cli for old 3ware cards.

It's likely not very useful for modern freebsd binaries, unless someoneupdates it.

+j

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