- This package includes the user space utilities needed to test and debug the
- SPL and SPLAT kernel modules.
+ 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. The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel
+ module which provides a testing harness for the SPL module.
+ .
+ SPL can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos
+ (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don't want the
+ overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives
+ to Linux primitives.
+ .
+ This package includes the user space utilities needed to test and debug
+ the SPL and SPLAT kernel modules.