From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 29 22:48: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461CF14F4B for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 22:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-44.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.44] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA26342; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:46:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37CA1AC6.2A77C6B4@airnet.net> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:46:46 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Jamie Howard , sko@eth0.net, FreeBSD-Alpha Subject: Re: Java References: <14281.27642.391620.757352@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Jamie Howard writes: > > On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Shawn Kelly O Shea wrote: > > > > > About 6 months ago I was looking into kaffe on Linux alpha. Current > > > > Does FreeBSD/Alpha run Linux/Alpha binaries? > > > > Jamie > > > > I'm working on it. Its a bit more of a challenge than I'd thought, > primarily because linux/alpha is a bit more of a dirty hack than I'd > expected. They've moved their system call numbers around & share a > number of calls with osf/1, their flags (eg, mmap flags, ioctl > numbers, etc) are also different. This is probably a result of their > initial bootstrap from osf/1. > > Still a lot of problems, but some (simple) things work: > > <2:28pm>broil/gallatin:linux>uname -srm > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT alpha > <2:28pm>broil/gallatin:linux>/compat/linux/bin/bash > bash$ /compat/linux/bin/uname > Linux > bash$ /bin/uname -srm > Linux 2.2.5 alpha > bash$ exit > > However, nothing truely useful works yet. Hey, if rc5des for linux/alpha works, I'm happy. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message