From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 15:41:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806CD16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:41:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.30.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B1043D39 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:41:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: from robbins.dropbear.id.au (210.50.113.35) by smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.024) id 40B7A0DA005C0379 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:41:16 +1000 Received: by robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0748C41F4; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:43:53 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:43:53 +1000 From: Tim Robbins To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040617154353.GA54873@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Preliminary support for running 32-bit Linux binaries X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:41:30 -0000 I'm pleased to announce that my work on running 32-bit Linux binaries on FreeBSD/amd64 has come to the point where it runs almost everything I throw at it, including the Sun JDK, OpenOffice.org and Acrobat Reader. The patch and some brief notes on installing the Linux base system and a few popular applications are available at: http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/linux32.html I'm aware of a number of problems with this patch -- I'm making it available in the current state for people to experiment with, and because I won't have time to tidy it up & commit it to CVS for at least 2 weeks. Tim