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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 do not want the overhead
of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially
released tarball you will need to generate the configure script. This
can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing the GNU
autotools for your distribution.
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