From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 09:34:43 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 37BE216A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:34:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.76.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A8B43D39 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:34:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: from robbins.dropbear.id.au (210.50.217.174) by smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.031.3) id 416A62D20052558F; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:34:41 +1000 Received: by robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 721924256; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:34:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:34:39 +1000 From: Tim Robbins To: BSD Samba Message-ID: <20041022093439.GA15304@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20041022031145.23130.qmail@web61110.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041022031145.23130.qmail@web61110.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of Linux-base kld in 5.3 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: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:34:43 -0000 On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:11:44PM -0700, BSD Samba wrote: > Guys (and Gals) - > > I don't want to interupt the work going on with > getting 5.3 release ready. From the dabbling I've > done in the past couple of weeks, I love it! I'm > currently rebuilding my BSD machine, with a new amd64 > processor - trying to use 5.3 amd64 BETA7. > > I've run into trouble, though getting linux_base and > the KLD working. I've seen some mention in the > release notes that it isn't (or wasn't) quite ready. > > Does anyone know whether in 5.3 RC1 which appears to > have been uploaded to the ftp site merely days ago, > will I be able to get linux_base working, in order to > get jkd14 going, in order to get openoffice > compiled...? > > Thanks for any insight. I love my amd64, and I'd much > prefer to run the amd64 than the i386 version of BSD. My understanding is that the Linux emulation bits and pieces in the ports collection are not fully usable on amd64 at the moment. Additionally, it isn't yet possible to build the Linux emulator as a module on amd64; it has to be compiled into the kernel. I put these notes together a few months ago on how to get the Linux versions of OpenOffice.org and Java running on FreeBSD: http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/linux32.html Tim