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Lucas De Marchi 970e248649 Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.

There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00

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Mono(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux
-----------------------------------------
To configure Linux to automatically execute Mono-based .NET binaries
(in the form of .exe files) without the need to use the mono CLR
wrapper, you can use the BINFMT_MISC kernel support.
This will allow you to execute Mono-based .NET binaries just like any
other program after you have done the following:
1) You MUST FIRST install the Mono CLR support, either by downloading
a binary package, a source tarball or by installing from CVS. Binary
packages for several distributions can be found at:
http://go-mono.com/download.html
Instructions for compiling Mono can be found at:
http://www.go-mono.com/compiling.html
Once the Mono CLR support has been installed, just check that
/usr/bin/mono (which could be located elsewhere, for example
/usr/local/bin/mono) is working.
2) You have to compile BINFMT_MISC either as a module or into
the kernel (CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) and set it up properly.
If you choose to compile it as a module, you will have
to insert it manually with modprobe/insmod, as kmod
cannot be easily supported with binfmt_misc.
Read the file 'binfmt_misc.txt' in this directory to know
more about the configuration process.
3) Add the following entries to /etc/rc.local or similar script
to be run at system startup:
# Insert BINFMT_MISC module into the kernel
if [ ! -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then
/sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc
# Some distributions, like Fedora Core, perform
# the following command automatically when the
# binfmt_misc module is loaded into the kernel
# or during normal boot up (systemd-based systems).
# Thus, it is possible that the following line
# is not needed at all.
mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
fi
# Register support for .NET CLR binaries
if [ -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then
# Replace /usr/bin/mono with the correct pathname to
# the Mono CLR runtime (usually /usr/local/bin/mono
# when compiling from sources or CVS).
echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
else
echo "No binfmt_misc support"
exit 1
fi
4) Check that .exe binaries can be ran without the need of a
wrapper script, simply by launching the .exe file directly
from a command prompt, for example:
/usr/bin/xsd.exe
NOTE: If this fails with a permission denied error, check
that the .exe file has execute permissions.