Alexander Leidinger

After the call for public testing we got some reports about LORs and a panic. This happened after an extensive parallel compiling session of linux stuff on a SMP system for several hours. Roman redid some of the locking and the fixes are in the tree. Intermediate patches already showed promising results. We’re waiting for [...]

Since my call for testing the extended linuxulator in FreeBSD-current we got not much negative responses. Ping doesn’t work on the linux side (fixed in p4), ordinary network connections (e.g. downloading some stuff) works fine. There seems to be a deadlock on SMP systems when compiling a lot of stuff in parallel (e.g. using emerge [...]

Today I committed two patches which fix the last two panics we know about in the 2.6.16 emulation. Now we need testers. Here’s the text of the mail I did send to current@ a few moments ago:
Hi,

today I committed the last fixes for the showstopper problems (panics) in the linux 2.6.16 emulation. I intend to [...]

I got time yesterday to test acroread with the patch from Intron/Kostik and … Yeah! I was not able to crash acroread in the 2.6.16 emulation! Great! Request for widespread testing soon?!?

Now we just have to determine if we have to care about the locking (I don’t know if kib@ already asked jhb@ about it) [...]

On of the major showstopper bugs in the linux 2.6 emulation is that acroread does not work. Now we have patches (proof of concept by Intron, refined patch by Kib) for it. I didn’t had time to test it yet (mind you, everyone else is not able to run acroread with 2.6, I’m able to [...]

Today I removed the LINUX stuff from GENERIC on amd64 (this syncs with i386). Now that kib@ committed the kernel linker stuff the linux module is usable on amd64 too. This allows for more easy testing/patching on amd64 and also allows on-demand-loading like on i386.

I’m busy with non-FreeBSD related stuff since a while, so there’s not much to say.

RealPlayer: Shaun, the FreeBSD maintainer of the helixplayer port, promised to polish up a patchset when he gets time to port helixplayer to a more recent version and send it to the corresponding helix community (requested by some people at Real [...]

I did spend the weekend with various test of the linuxolator.

First testing the remaining patches from the SoC from Roman with realplayer and acroread. The patches changed nothing in the tests, but they fixed some bugs nevertless.

After that I committed some stuff from submissions (aio from Intron and SO_PEERCRED from Marcin Cieslak) to p4 (available [...]

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 [...]