Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
Oct 15, 2026, 9:31 PM@sackofbones @jessienab @lanodan I know that at least some games work through it, but it's not 100% compatible, sadly. But it's worth giving it a spin!
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SackOfBones (any/all)sackofbones@kolektiva.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:34 PM@nina_kali_nina I do osdev for fun anyway so if it doesn't work I'll just make the NetBSD kernel linux syscall compatible /hj @jessienab @lanodan
- SackOfBones (any/all)sackofbones@kolektiva.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:35 PM
@nina_kali_nina There's only like 450 of them so not much work @jessienab @lanodan
Oct 15, 2026, 9:45 PM@sackofbones @nina_kali_nina @jessienab At least looking at syscalls(2) manpage it doesn't looks like there's been much recent activity there outside of entirely skippable ones (like I disabled stuff like io_uring support on my gentoo machines).
So I think I'd more expect slight compatibility issues due to different behavior rather than missing syscall support.
(That said there's also the pain that are ioctl, fcntl, …)- Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 15, 2026, 9:36 PM
@sackofbones @jessienab @lanodan that's pretty great actually! I think the Linux compat code and the nvmm hypervisor both need a bit of TLC. I think it should not be impossible to get podman running with Linux kernel that is hardware acceleration-virtualised