linux-kmod-compat 20080408 devel =1

Adaptation layer to build linux drivers on FreeBSD
Maintained by: luigi@FreeBSD.org
Port Added: 02 Feb 2007 18:08:44
Also Listed In: emulators linux multimedia

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This port is an emulation layer to port linux device drivers to FreeBSD,
mostly oriented to USB device drivers where FreeBSD support is weaker.
It contains:
- a set of headers with declarations for entities used in the Linux kernel;
- a compatibility library (in source form) mapping [part of] the linux kernel
  APIs to equivalent FreeBSD APIs;
- a template for character device drivers.
Ideally, the porting of a linux driver should be as simple as downloading
the linux driver sources, writing a simple Makefile.kmod, and running
"make -f Makefile.kld" to produce your driver.ko.

WWW:	http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html

CVSWeb : Sources : Main Web Site : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r linux-kmod-compat

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Configuration Options

     No options to configure

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Master Sites:

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

Make this port build under FreeBSD 7, enabling dependent
drivers (e.g. linux-gspca-compat and others) to build too.

The fixes in the code are really minor (basically workaround a
change in the definition of msleep).

Upgrade to version 20070326, which implements device control variables
(available under /proc on Linux) as a sysctl tree debug.{drivername}

With this feature you can, as an example, set
sysctl debug.gspca.compress=1 and sysctl debug.gspca.autoexpo=0
to speed up capture on some cameras.

This version also includes some pwcview changes to display up
to 4 copies of the grabbed image, with various mirroring options.

Update to the 20070208 release of the code.
Apart from internal cleanup, a visible change is that
mmap-related ioctl in video drivers are trapped and made
to return EINVAL.
This prevents clients (e.g. ekiga) that do not check for mmap() errors
from crashing.

I suggest to rebuild linux-gspca-kmod and linux-ov511-kmod.

Fix PKGORIGIN

Pointy hat:     luigi

update to version 20070203, which enables build of children
ports (linux-gspca-kmod, linux-ov511-kmod) on 64 bit archs.

Thanks to Jung-uk Kim for the 64-bit patches.

Remove an extra '@'.

Replace BROKEN with IGNORE, since there is no chance it will be
buildable on <602100 in the future.

Spotted by:     pav

- Add automatic pkg-plist generation
- Remove NO_PACKAGE (for the above reason)
- Add NO_BUILD
- Various fixes (also for portlint)

This commit doesn't change which files are installed and where
(the port is still not PREFIX clean).

Make it clear why NO_PACKAGE is set.

Add new port for linux-kmod-compat - emulation layer to build
linux device drivers as FreeBSD kld modules. Details at

        http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html

Two ports for webcam drivers that use this package are coming in
a matter of minutes.

NOTES:
+ This is only for 6.x and 7.x, no support planned for earlier versions.
+ At the moment only i386 but have patches for 64-bit architectures
  that should be committed soon.
+ This port installs a file in /usr/share/mk . After some discussion
  on the ports list this seems, to be the most reasonable thing to do.
  portlint complains about it.

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