Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 12:54:00 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: ALHACK@am.pnu.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Caldera Linux Message-ID: <199607061154.MAA21585@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 1996 20:16:06 PDT." <199607040316.UAA12045@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote in message ID
<199607040316.UAA12045@phaeton.artisoft.com>:
> > No, I don't think it should go in ... full elf support makes quite a
> > few changes in the system, and the latest -current linux emulator even
> > more (and that is needed if you want to run quake). So it's a no-go,
> > not this close to a release.
> Well, then I'll call it a mistake to have not considered it before
> it was this close to release... 8-(.
It was considered when it was first committed, and I agreed at the
time (and still do) that the improved Linux emulator belongs in
-current, and not in -stable. The original commit for the improved
linux emulator was:
peter 96/03/02 11:38:21
Modified: sys/conf files
sys/i386/conf LINT Makefile.i386 files.i386 options.i386
sys/i386/i386 exception.s locore.s machdep.c trap.c
sys/i386/ibcs2 ibcs2_sysvec.c ibcs2_util.h
sys/i386/include md_var.h pcb.h
sys/i386/linux imgact_linux.c linux.h linux_dummy.c
linux_file.c linux_ioctl.c linux_ipc.c
linux_misc.c linux_signal.c linux_socket.c
linux_stats.c linux_sysent.c
sys/kern imgact_aout.c init_sysent.c kern_exec.c kern_sig.c
makesyscalls.sh
sys/sys exec.h signal.h signalvar.h sysent.h
Added: sys/i386/linux linux_genassym.c linux_locore.s
linux_proto.h linux_syscall.h linux_sysvec.c
linux_util.c linux_util.h
sys/kern init_sysvec.c
Removed: sys/i386/linux linux_generic.c sysproto.h
[massive log message deleted].
See the number of non-linux related files touched? Since then there
have been countless bug fixes for various aspects of the `emulator',
and with the different VM (etc) structures in -current and -stable, I
wouldn't have recommended anyone try back-porting this.
Gary
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