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diff --git a/system/spl-solaris/README b/system/spl-solaris/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cde5bc628d --- /dev/null +++ b/system/spl-solaris/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which +provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. +This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the +Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. + +This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream +Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of +maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux +primitives. + +You need this if you want to run ZFS on Linux. + +NOTE: You'll need the kernel source code to be able to compile this. +This package is kernel dependent, so you'll need to recompile it for +every new kernel you choose to run. + +If you don't have a /usr/src/linux symlink pointing to your real +kernel directory (the script looks for it there by default), specify +your kernel source destination by + + LINUXPATH=<path to your kernel source> ./spl-solaris.SlackBuild |