Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 12:42:03 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sys/compat? Message-ID: <9508141842.AA16899@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508140248.IAA08296@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Aug 14, 95 08:48:27 am
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> > > We need a place to bring the new iBCS2 stuff from Steven Wallace (he > > as succeeded in porting the NetBSD emulation code to FreeBSD and is > > now able to run applications such as WordPerfect and FoxPro; > > congradulations and kudos to Steven!). He suggests /sys/compat, which > > sounds like as good a place as any. > > > > Any objections or suggestions as to a better place for this stuff? > > May be /sys/i386/compat ? I think iBCS2 support is processor dependent. It's not. Consider Solaris/SunOS binary compatability. Consider PPC AIX/Solaris binary compatability (both are coff, but one is Big Endian, one is Little). Effectively the NetBSD code uses hard coded variant symbolic links by hacking the search code in the namei to dual path things. This isn't necessarily my first choice, but it'll do until something better comes along. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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