2013-12-07 18:55:02 +08:00
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The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which
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2017-12-30 23:42:29 +08:00
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provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes
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it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with
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relatively minimal modification.
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2013-12-07 18:55:02 +08:00
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This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream
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Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of
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maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
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primitives.
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You need this if you want to run ZFS on Linux.
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NOTE: You'll need the kernel source code to be able to compile this.
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This package is kernel dependent, so you'll need to recompile it for
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every new kernel you choose to run.
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2017-12-29 17:53:35 +08:00
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If you're building this for a kernel that isn't currently running,
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you'll need to pass what that kernel's 'uname -r' output will be
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to the KERN variable when running the build script, e.g. KERN=4.14.9
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