[Toybox] BSD support

[Linux User]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:55:31PM -0500, Joe Nosay wrote:
> 
> I'm working on this- along with a few other Linux based programs - but; you
> are welcome to start your own porting effort. FreeBSD runs on multiple
> architectures with the Linux compatibility layer only working on i386 and
> AMD64. NetBSD has Linux compatibility for more architectures. You need to
> learn about proper branding of elf executables along with porting the
> necessary libraries if you want it to work through the Linux compat layer.
> OpenBSD does not have any Linux compat nor will it ever.

Huh?
www.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html says:
| OpenBSD/i386 is able to run Linux binaries when the kernel is compiled 
| with the COMPAT_LINUX option and the runtime sysctl kern.emul.linux
| is also set.

That said, they say elsewhere that it's difficult to get OpenBSD 
running in a VM.

> As far as QEmu, Virtual Box, or any of the others are concerned: it is much
> better and more practical to run a system on bare metal.
> These are my opinions but I did some work with porting VirtualBox and
> Ardour3 to FreeBSD, so I know what I am talking about.
> 

HTH,
Isaac Dunham

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