Clarify use of the 'streams' pseudo-device (i.e.: static or kld).

Trust me, this stuff will be in a real manpage before 4.0 ships :-)
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Mark Newton 1999-07-30 12:46:16 +00:00
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@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ Project by Christos Zoulas. It has been ported to FreeBSD by Mark Newton.
To use it:
1. Add "pseudo-device streams" to your kernel config file and rebuild,
reboot.
1. Choose one of:
a. Add "pseudo-device streams" to your kernel config file and rebuild,
reboot; or
b. Build and install the streams module in /sys/modules/streams
2. Build and install the svr4 module in /sys/modules/svr4
@ -16,18 +18,21 @@ To use it:
5. Run "sh SVR4_MAKEDEV all" in /compat/svr4/dev
6. Mount a Solaris/x86 CD-ROM on /cdrom
6. Mount a Solaris/x86 v2.6 or v7 CD-ROM on /cdrom (also works with
v2.4 and v2.5.1, but you need different symlinks in /compat/svr4)
7. Brand any executables you want to run
7. Brand any executables you want to run, and/or set the
kern.fallback_elf_brand sysctl to 'SVR4' to establish this as the
default emulator for unbranded executables.
8. See if they work.
8. See if your SysVR4 programs work.
It's early days yet, folks -- You'll probably have trouble getting 100%
functionality out of most things (specifically, poll() on a socket doesn't
look like it works at the moment, so Netscape doesn't work (among other
things)). Patches will be appreciated (use send-pr).
- mark newton
- Mark Newton
newton@atdot.dotat.org
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