On 07/14/2012 07:57 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > 2012/7/13 Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>: >> 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 in Debian >> Linux. This would make many things start working and reduce the things >> that you need to maintain dramatically. > > 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, unless you don't mind crippling Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD and turn it into a toy OS). > If half the effort that has gone into the creation of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD went into improving the Linuxulator so that it could be used this way, would that still be the case?
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