README.markdown

   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 do not want the overhead of
   6 maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
   7 primitives.
   8
   9 To build packages for your distribution:
  10
  11     $ ./configure
  12     $ make pkg
  13
  14 If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially
  15 released tarball you will need to generate the configure script.
  16 This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing
  17 the GNU autotools for your distribution.
  18
  19 To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin
  20 compilation:
  21
  22     $ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
  23     $ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
  24
  25 Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can
  26 be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>