kernel

Hi! According to the FreeBSD handbook, before installing the emulators/linux_base-c6 port/package in order to enable Linux compatibility, you should do sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18 but, if I am right, the latest emulators/linux_base-c6 port/package is based on a newer Linux kernel...

Hi! I want to install FreeBSD 10.2 release on a netbook (Sony VPCW12J1E) and I don't know exactly how to set up the proper driver for its graphics card (Intel GMA 950). Should I just install the x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel port/package and then install Xorg or should I also load some kernel...

I'm studying operating systems and kernel types. In all references that I have read, monolithic kernels are known for being cumbersome, difficult to maintain, difficult to debug, coding in kernel is very challenging, a faulty part of kernel can bring down the whole system and so on ... . On the...

Hi, I'm trying to compile a 10.2-RELEASE kernel for my Soekris i386 1 GByte memory system (the target system). Due to it's slowness, I'm compiling the kernel on a AMD64 system (the build system). Unfortunately, I'm getting compile errors, and I wonder if I might have done some silly. This is...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to build latest CURRENT snapshot from svn, but make kernel fails to build with error messages like no member 'command' in ... -- like when some headers are missing or something. But am I wrong in my assumption that any given snapshot is supposed to build?

Hello, In short: root@datacore_tmp:~ # uname -a FreeBSD datacore_tmp.deltanews.lan 10.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 15:26:37 UTC 2015 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 /GENERIC amd64 I'm using it with istgt for iSCSI storage. It's fresh...

On my old computer(cpu=pd915) the compilation time is about 70s. On my new computer(cpu=amd athlon 5200) the compilation time is about 40s. This trick is very simple. :e First and the following line to your make.conf. NO_MODULES=true It will prevent the system compile the module that I do...