From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 03:44:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D7C16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:44:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF37843D4C for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:44:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0I3iOBK037337; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0I3iNmR037336; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:44:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Gary Jennejohn Message-ID: <20050118034423.GA37298@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050117203818.GA29131@dragon.nuxi.com> <200501172047.j0HKlxS7022766@peedub.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501172047.j0HKlxS7022766@peedub.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] what to name linux 32-bit compat X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:44:25 -0000 On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:47:59PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > "David O'Brien" writes: > > /usr/ports Linux 32-bit compatibility on AMD64 is a mess and too rough > > for what is expected of FreeBSD. Anyway... > > > > We need to decide how to have both Linux i686 and Linux amd64 compat > > support live side-by-side. At the moment my leanings are for > > /compat/linux32 and /compat/linux. We could also go with /compat/linux > > and /compat/linux64 <- taking a page from the Linux LSB naming convention > > (ie, they have lib and lib64). > > > > Linux 32-bit support is most interesting -- that is how we get Acrobat > > reader and some other binary-only ports. The only Linux 64-bit things we > > might want to run that truly matter 32-bit vs. 64-bit is Oracle and > > IBM-DB2. For other applications 32-bit vs. 64-bit is mostly a "Just > > Because Its There(tm)" thing. So making Linux 32-bit support the > > cleanest looking from a /usr/ports POV has some merit. > > > > What do others think? > > I agree with this 100%. Besides, at the moment the really interesting > Linux applications for normal users, like realplayer, are only available > in 32-bit mode, AFAIK. You didn't actually answer the question. :-) Or rather I can't tell which way above you're agreeing with. :-( -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)