From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 16 13:00:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6571065670; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAFD8FC20; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:00:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A54624.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.70.36]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EAB2E165; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:00:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from deskjail (unknown [192.168.1.109]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760EF7BD37; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=Leidinger.net; s=outgoing-alex; t=1205672388; bh=y+5adf8ga3um/b10oUxVs5/hw7/FZgt3X XN0RVypAO8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=o9COFLVbYlerME9uCs1wRofJl5CgVaRjUUIjP Q5cIyNIY6UecJUC66BgbzK3hGzJ6ntes6FZtAm2Mq/NdFk58j/egX0/MDnRqzwM0ATx AQHFBn+k83ERIBmFq0acBbn/9sQN4Rv0wF4FJSdSE75FzeENO3tK4ltJ2adXNuMNtQI 7BuHmgsSAgRPU6BueIxR3Nuuem3SmJnBSvNazVOQ9AWUdU58QnighFiSn+1hgPzozLy xtvvEs6bOL2VVNlbHk2xms7iEVrZH8Z6ArUN89ywRbCR3m7wouv7lyJFxHf522zmFet nTSrEiQ9nURzdOFQWrRYkkpatVcVITkARycJw== Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:56:46 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Message-ID: <20080316135646.31519814@deskjail> In-Reply-To: <20080316115631.GA16341@soaustin.net> References: <20080315080424.13561oymhrersh8g@intranet.encontacto.net> <40994934@ipt.ru> <20080316095023.4a64aecd@deskjail> <200803160129.21065.beech@freebsd.org> <20080316115631.GA16341@soaustin.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i686-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.4, required 6, BAYES_00 -15.00, DKIM_SIGNED 0.00, DKIM_VERIFIED -0.00, NO_RDNS 0.50, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the recommended LinuxEmulator and kernel that will run skype-devel and maybe Flash9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:00:09 -0000 Quoting linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) (Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:56:31 -0500): > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:29:15AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On another note, skype-1.4.0.118 also requires linux_dri on amd64 as > > will the new version. I see that it's flagged only_for_archs= i386. I > > have verified (so has skype) that it works fine on FreeBSD amd64. > > Can we unflag linux_dri so we're not excluding those users? > > I vaguely recall some discussion about doing that but it being held > off until post-freeze. The question was, once we unflag linux_dri, > does that suddenly enable a bunch of ports to try to be built on > amd64 that we weren't expecting before? If so, someone(TM) needs > to track that so it's not a surprise on the next amd64 package build. It can only enable binary ports (linux ones). As those are mostly i386 RPMs which get extracted, I don't expect any problems (they are already tested for the i386 package builds). At least regarding normal linux ports. I can not comment on some special requirements of some games, but if there's more than a handful of I'm willing to spend s weekend to try to fix the problems. Beech, Boris, are you willing to help out if there are some problems? Bye, Alexander. -- Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God. -- M-5 Computer, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137