Comments on: DRM from Linux to DragonFly to Haiku

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 16 May 2017 03:32:43 +0000

This put a smile on my face.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 May 2017 20:17:16 +0000

https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2016/08/11/18523.html

By: Zackary

Zackary — Mon, 15 May 2017 18:05:25 +0000

Gotcha. Thanks

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 15 May 2017 17:55:22 +0000

Unless the code was removed, it would still be there. Note that you are talking about the linuxulator, which isn’t supported… but the Haiku person is talking about DRM support, which Francois translated from looking at driver support in more recent Linux kernels. It’s two different things.

By: Zackary

Zackary — Mon, 15 May 2017 17:50:45 +0000

>> “It wasn’t converted to 64-bit.”

I’m confused, I thought dragonfly was only 64bit.

Does that imply 32bit-only functionality still exists in dragonfly?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 15 May 2017 15:56:37 +0000

There are two different “compatibility” layers: one is a device portability layer, it started is life for FreeBSD’s fiberchannel native support. I think that was merged in some way to DragonFly and then forked for better graphics support.

The other is known as the “linuxulator”, used to run linux binaries. Only FreeBSD has support for 64 bit linux binaries: most other BSDs have seen the 32bit support rot and OpenBSD went ahead and removed it.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 15 May 2017 15:52:28 +0000

It wasn’t converted to 64-bit.

By: Zackary

Zackary — Mon, 15 May 2017 14:56:10 +0000

I thought dragonfly removed the Linux capability layer.

Though I tried googling for that and I couldn’t find any results on Linux capability being removed.

I must be getting old but I could have sworn it was removed.