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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 10:09:17 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes.
Message-ID:  <200205081009.17244.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020508062241.E209C38CC@overcee.wemm.org>
References:  <20020508062241.E209C38CC@overcee.wemm.org>

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On Wednesday 08 May 2002 7:22 am, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "David O'Brien" wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:37:16PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > I would therefore like to propose that we do something like
> > > the following:
> > >
> > > =09Repocopy src/sys/sys/* to src/sys/include
> > > =09Repocopy src/sys/sys/* to src/sys/abi4
> >
> > This is actually the FreeBSD 3.0 ABI, not an ABI introduced with 4.0.
>
> Also note that we already have a 32-bit freebsd abi emulation in
> /sys/ia64/ia32..  The x86 syscalls are wrapperized and converted
> to 64 bit.

That place is not the final home for the thing either. I would like to be=
 able=20
to use the same code for all ilp32 process on lp64 kernel situations (e.g=
=2E=20
sparc32 on sparc64, i386 on x86-64 etc.)

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Doug Rabson=09=09=09=09Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
=09=09=09=09=09Phone: +44 20 8348 6160


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