Re: kqemu package for DragonFly

Joerg Sonnenberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:04:41PM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:25:50PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:24:25AM +0200, Hofmann Johannes wrote:
> > > As vmware-module is already in pkgsrc I tried to make a pkgsrc
> > > package.
> > 
> > Frankly, I will kick out the vmware-module package at some point because
> > it is simply useless. It doesn't work with any recent vmware anyway.
> 
> Does this mean that you would rather not put the kqemu stuff into
> pkgsrc? I'm open for any solution. I just want to make sure that the
> porting work does not get lost.

I don't think kernel modules for the BSDs are generally a good thing to
place in pkgsrc, yes. Solaris is a bit different as it has a much more
stable kernel ABI and the only real example in this area is a network
module anyway.

Joerg

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