From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 10 12:56:13 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d82.as2.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.92.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3613A37B478; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3B1spmi004960; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3B1sp1C004957; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Doug Rabson Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia32 Makefile ia32_proto.h ia32_syscall.h ia32_sysent.c imgact_ia32.c imgact_ia32.h syscalls.conf syscalls.master In-Reply-To: <200204101934.g3AJYqu73129@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20020410205323.T4956-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Doug Rabson wrote: > None of the syscall argument translation has been done. Possibly, this > translation layer can be shared with any platform that wants to support > running ILP32 binaries on an LP64 host (e.g. sparc32 binaries?) I seem to recall the paper on porting NetBSD to x86-64 talking about how they were able to share the same translation layer between sparc and x86-64. If you write it well, I'd guess that it could be shared three ways. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message