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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 don’t want the overhead of
maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
primitives.

To build packages for your distribution:

    $ ./configure
    $ make pkg

To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin
compilation:

    $ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
    $ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...

Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can
be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>
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1e487540 BB	1	The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
	2	many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to
	3	run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
	4	modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track
	5	upstream Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of
	6	maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
	7	primitives.
	8
53be2266 BB	9	To build packages for your distribution:
53be2266 BB	10
d5fcc5f5 BB	11	$ ./configure
d5fcc5f5 BB	12	$ make pkg
53be2266	13
c167aadb ED	14	To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin
	15	compilation:
	16
	17	$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
	18	$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
	19
53be2266	20	Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can
4bc4f6d8	21	be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>