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 don’t 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 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
  20 Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can
  21 be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>