From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 06:14:35 2005 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 073E516A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 06:14:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E4643D31 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 06:14:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7B72A7EA for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2532E2B3 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j156EXqo073425; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j156EWtg073424; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:14:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Authentication-Warning: overcee.wemm.org: peter set sender to peter@wemm.org using -f From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Nick Lozinsky Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:14:32 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502042214.32845.peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: amd64 and wine 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: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:14:35 -0000 On Friday 04 February 2005 03:51 am, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > Hello: > > Running FreeBSD5.3-STABLE on AMD64 3200+; I've attempted to `make > install' wine from the ports tree, and surprisingle enough, it is > only able to compile on I386 architectures. I looked through the > Makefile, and saw the i386 support, only. Does wine have any support > on amd64, or is it possible to compile on amd64 for backward 32-bit > compatibility? > > Thanks in advance. I'm sorry to say that no, it isn't likely in the short term. Wine depends on the USER_LDT features to use a custom x86 segmentation table within a user process. The amd64 kernel does not have this. I have been thinking about how to implement this in a lower-cost way than what currently happens on the i386 kernel though. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5