From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 09:04:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20732 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from os.inf.tu-dresden.de (os.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.20.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20576 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anna.inf.tu-dresden.de (hohmuth@ibdr066.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.20.66]) by os.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05272; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:02:35 +0200 Received: (from hohmuth@localhost) by anna.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA29490; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:02:34 +0200 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:02:34 +0200 Message-Id: <199610211602.SAA29490@anna.inf.tu-dresden.de> To: Jason Thorpe CC: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Jason Thorpe's message of Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:44:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Linux compat issue(s) From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth) References: <199610171844.LAA06086@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199610171844.LAA06086@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe writes: > On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:32:43 +0200 > roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) wrote: > > > Has anyone contacted Linus for the same problem ? It would be nice if every > > free UNIX could use the same method. > > As I stated in a previous mail to this list, Matt Thomas and I had this > discussion with Linus. He simply wasn't interested. His way to make it > all work properly was to make all of the ABIs look like Linux. > > Eventually, the thread turned into "why making all ABIs look like > Linux was not an acceptable solution". > [...] (I'm no longer so enthusiastic about expending the > effort to include Linux on this, given Linus's attitude toward the > problem.) I suggest you rather discuss it with H.J. Lu, the Linux binutils hacker, who can be expected to have an understanding of the issue. Linus will probably acceppt Linux kernel patches by him. Michael -- Email: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de WWW: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mh1/