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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:14:31 +0100 (CET)
From:      <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/91293: [svr4] [patch] *Experimental* Update to the SVR4 emulation (from NetBSD)
Message-ID:  <20060307141431.94257.qmail@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060307025350.GA58236@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Hi;

--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ha scritto: 

...
> > 
> >  I have greatly reduced the size and scope of the patch by removing all 
> >  the code for 64bit emulation and things that don't apply to FreeBSD 
> >  (IRIX defines).
> 
> It still works, right? :^)
> 

What is left on the patch at this point are only bug fixes to panics and
overflows from the NetBSD port. This is not something I can test on amd64 and
rebuilding a kernel on qemu is painfully slow.

Unfortunately the svr4 emulation is incomplete wrt NetBSD; there is some rather
important code labelled "NOT_YET" that makes reference to UVM. I think the SVR4
emulation port still needs hacking from someone that knows well FreeBSD's inner
workings, but there is lot of work done already and it is no doubt a very
valuable effort in the light of OpenSolaris.

cheers,

    Pedro



	

	
		
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