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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:50 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@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
Message-ID:  <20020410205323.T4956-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <200204101934.g3AJYqu73129@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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


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