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diff --git a/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 b/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 index e7a5653..a387c77 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Nuxi, https://nuxi.nl/ +.\" Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Nuxi, https://nuxi.nl/ .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions @@ -22,17 +22,25 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ -.Dd October 22, 2015 +.Dd September 22, 2016 .Dt CLOUDABI 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm cloudabi , +.Nm cloudabi32 , .Nm cloudabi64 .Nd CloudABI support .Sh SYNOPSIS -Support for 64-bit CloudABI executables can be compiled into the kernel +Support for 32-bit CloudABI executables can be compiled into the kernel by adding this line to the kernel configuration file: .Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "options COMPAT_CLOUDABI32" +.Ed +.Pp +Similarly, +support for 64-bit CloudABI executables can be enabled by adding this +line: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent .Cd "options COMPAT_CLOUDABI64" .Ed .Pp @@ -40,6 +48,7 @@ CloudABI support can also be loaded at boot time from .Xr loader.conf 5 : .Bd -literal -offset indent cloudabi_load="YES" +cloudabi32_load="YES" cloudabi64_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -52,19 +61,21 @@ and hardened against security exploits. .Pp Support for CloudABI on .Fx -consists of two separate kernel modules. +consists of three separate kernel modules. The .Nm cloudabi kernel module implements all of the system calls that do not depend on -data structures that differ between architectures. +data structures that differ between hardware architectures. .Pp The +.Nm cloudabi32 +and .Nm cloudabi64 -kernel module provides implementations of all of the machine-dependent -system calls. -It assumes that pointers stored in data structures provided as system -call arguments are 64 bits in size. -It also provides the image activator that loads and starts 64-bit ELF +kernel modules provide implementations of all of the machine-dependent +system calls, +assuming that pointers stored in data structures are either 32 bits or +64 bits in size. +These modules also provide the image activators that load and start ELF executables. .Pp Though the @@ -72,8 +83,12 @@ Though the module can be loaded on any architecture supported by .Fx , the +.Nm cloudabi32 +module is only available on amd64, armv6 and i386. +The same holds for the .Nm cloudabi64 -module is only available for amd64 and arm64. +module, +which is only available for amd64 and arm64. .Pp A full cross compilation toolchain for CloudABI is available in the .Pa devel/cloudabi-toolchain @@ -93,6 +108,9 @@ restricted set of resources. .Xr linux 4 , .Xr elf 5 .Pp +CloudABI for FreeBSD: +.Pa https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/freebsd/ . +.Pp cloudlibc on GitHub: .Pa https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc . .Pp |
