Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:34:41 +0200 From: Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari-electronic.de> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/svr4 svr4_sysvec.c Message-ID: <20020709213441.A31837@alpha.develop.ferrari.net> In-Reply-To: <20020709191006.GD27690@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200207091459.g69ExRxg017714@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020709173323.GA24994@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709204823.A31692@alpha.develop.ferrari.net> <20020709191006.GD27690@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:10:06PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:48:23PM +0200, Robert Drehmel wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:33:23AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Also the SVR4 compat code will be used much more by our sparc64 platform
> > > than i386 one -- and there it will be used exclusively for Solaris
> > > binaries.
> >
> > That is true -- I will back it out. Do you agree that
> > brandelf(1) should then be changed to brand files to
> > ELFOSABI_SOLARIS when "SVR4" is specified as the type?
>
> Not really -- SVR4(ELFOSABI_SVR4) is a legal type. It is also the way of
^^^^ SYSV?
> "un-branding". The change you made might be right, but I think we should
> think about it and make sure it is a change that is a Good Thing.
>
> There is Solaris-x86 and true-blue vanilla SVR4 on i386.
And people cannot run executables for them without branding
their files to the one ABI type that our SVR4 emulation's
brand type is set to, whatever we set it to.
> So maybe we might need a sys/compat/solaris that uses most
> of the sys/compat/svr4 code.
That would solve that issue, yes.
ciao,
-robert
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