Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:13:14AM -0400, Michael Lauzon wrote:
> October 7th, 2009
> 
> The Debian Release Team is pleased to announce that it sees the port
> of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handled equal
> with the other release ports. The upcoming release codenamed 'Squeeze'
> is planned to be the first Debian distribution to be released with
> Linux and FreeBSD kernels.
> 
> The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386
> processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on
> these architectures will be considered release critical the same way
> as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular
> package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this
> problem is considered release-critical.
> 
> Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into
> the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users
> a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides
> features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS
> drivers in the mainline kernel with full support.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20091007

Well it blows up quite well under kvm if smp is enabled.  Can't even
boot the installer, just crashes the kernel.

Works OK with one cpu though.

The current installer is a couple of months old though, so perhaps the
current kernel is better.

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Len Sorensen
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