From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 20 21:45:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7685216A421 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from rusty.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (rusty.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A7813C467 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rusty.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8F21D78CE; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:20:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtps02.kuleuven.be (smtpshost02.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.75]) by rusty.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AF11D771F; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:20:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [10.4.16.222]) by smtps02.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD97F3862; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:19:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from kalimero.kotnet.org (kalimero.kotnet.org [127.0.0.1]) by kalimero.kotnet.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lAKLJw8N006572; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:19:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) X-Kuleuven: This mail passed the K.U.Leuven mailcluster From: Tijl Coosemans To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:19:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <473F250F.2030903@gmail.com> <-7365572665943498145@unknownmsgid> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711202219.57553.tijl@ulyssis.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by KULeuven Antivirus Cluster Cc: Kip Macy Subject: Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:45:07 -0000 On Sunday 18 November 2007 23:45:12 Kip Macy wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 12:21 PM, Alexey Shuvaev > wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:24:36AM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >>> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>>> 2. I meant features not formats and since I am using amd64 no >>>> wine >>> >>> Setting up FreeBSD i386 in a jail seems to do the job for most >>> people. You can have a whole i386 system in a jail and it won't >>> even recognize it's running on an amd64 kernel. >> >> I have gone this way. Well, everything (including emulators/wine) >> compiles and installs fine, but i386-build of a wine does not work >> inside i386-jail hosted on amd64 machine. I don't remember exactly >> what happens on start, segment violation or something like this, >> with core dump. I think wine requires rather tight co-operation with >> the kernel and it is not possible to launch i386-wine on amd64 this >> way. > > Please file a PR on the Wine core dump. It's a known problem. The amd64 kernel doesn't preserve the segment registers (%es, %fs, %gs,...) when switching an ia32 context. Wine won't work without that.