Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:47:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh> To: freebsd-emulation Subject: Welcome to the FreeBSD-emulation mailing list (and status report)! Message-ID: <199604161547.IAA20278@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Apologies for the temporary glitch with the alias which kept this list off the air up to now, but it should all be fixed and `freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org' (or just `emulation') open for business. There are a couple of emulation projects we have ongoing right now, so I'll just give a few quick updates as to status: o Linux/ELF emulation: This has been going pretty well, and John Polstra <jdp@freebsd.org> has been making significant progress with his `elf kit' for native ELF binary generation as well - the latest version of his kit can be found at ftp://ftp.polstra.com/pub/FreeBSD/elfkit/elfkit-1.2.1.tar.gz Not really strictly an `emulation' topic, perhaps, but still worthy of some mention here! o Willows: This is the Windows emulator recently released by Willows Software and sort-of-ported to FreeBSD by Sujal Patel, Gary Jennejohn and others. I say "sort of" not to insult the work they've done at all, simply to indicate that there's still a bit of work to be done on this one. If you'd like to find out more about Willows and sign up for the source (yes, you still need to register for it), please see http://www.willows.com. If you'd like to reach the developers, a small mailing alias on my machine, throck.com, is available for reaching the just the Willows folks (one of whom is also one of the lead designers at Willows). Please also don't send "what's the status of this?" messages to the list - you'll only get "It's not finished! We need more volunteers!" back as a reply :-). Periodic bulletins will also be sent to this emulation mailing list as major milestones (I hope!) are hit. o Rundos: This is the DOS emulator recently donated to us by BSDI under the BSD copyright. Progress has been slow, but steady, with Sean Eric Fagan <sef@FreeBSD.org> and Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> doing the lion's share of the work so far. I've also recently been contacted by Alexander Kolbasov <akolb@stins.msk.su> and Pace Willisson <pace@blitz.com>, two of the original developers of the code for BSDI. Both are on this mailing list. Pace has indicated that he's really not going to be up for much more than answering questions from time to time, whereas Alexander has indicated that he wouldn't mind being more actively involved. If we can avoid pestering these two too much, I think that both of them will be invaluable resources in getting this project off the ground quickly (nothing like having the people who originally wrote the code to talk to! :-). An overall coordinator for the DOS emulation project is also yet to be found, though I'd be happy to nominate Sean Eric Fagan if he's interested! :-) J.R. Westmoreland <jr@jrw.org> has also volunteered, if Sean's schedule does not permit this (my preference for Sean comes simply out of the fact that I know he's studied the heck out of the code for the last couple of weeks! :-). o BSD/OS: The emulation of BSD/OS 2.0 executables went into FreeBSD-current several months ago and, as far as I know, is working flawlessly with everything. Please let us know if you encounter any exceptions. Thanks! Again, this mailing list is freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org. Some of you were added indirectly by request, so if you wish to be taken off again at any time, simply send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org and say `unsubscribe freebsd-emulation' somewhere in the body of the message. Jordan
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