From 60037843ce730855e2b0942190995dfe1756a6e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Newton Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:46:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 :-) --- sys/modules/svr4/README | 19 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/sys/modules/svr4/README b/sys/modules/svr4/README index b62d4bfafdf..c8a0aee38db 100644 --- a/sys/modules/svr4/README +++ b/sys/modules/svr4/README @@ -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 - +$Id$