Alexander Leidinger

Several people help debugging/testing the new linuxolator. We already got patches from kib@ and from the contributor which uses “Intron” as his alias in communication. On the amd64 testing side bsam@ helps a lot. So far we fixed a panic with linux_vfork (I got hit by it while running the glibc regression tests) and synced [...]

I committed most of Romans work in the linuxolator to current. The new syscalls aren’t used until you run
sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
to switch back (after exiting all linux programs) you just have to run
sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2
But you have to do this on i386. Amd64 support is not complete (and besides this, amd64 is still broken and nobody provided [...]

Wow, some of the TODO items in the last post are done:

emu10k1 lower priority on attach (allows emu10kx to attach when loaded too)
sade committed (and code improved)

And I did some more things:

emu10kx fixes (submitted by Yuriy)
enhancement of the bsd to linux errno mapping (submitted by “Intron”)
added some more files to ObsoleteFiles.inc (submitted by kris@)
had a [...]

Not much happened in the last days. I talked with my SoC 2006 students and helped them a little bit with knowledge and testing. I also did commit some fixes for the envy24 driver to current.

ATM I have some holidays. So I think I should get some more time do to some stuff in FreeBSD… [...]