On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:25:07AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:13:36AM +0200, haad wrote: > > > > With solaris.kmod we are compatible with solaris kernel, (we should > > be able to load solaris kernel modules). > > Have you actually tried this? I am pretty sure it would not work. > > It appears to me that solaris.kmod includes shims that provide some > Solaris kernel interfaces at the *source* level in NetBSD, which > certainly makes it easier to port kernel code from Solaris but does > not (as far as I can tell) give us binary compatibility.
Adam may have meant source level compat, it definitely does provide some level of that. Of course no binary compat as you say.
