From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 21 17:14:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24332 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24232 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16819; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:14:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd016697; Mon Sep 21 17:13:54 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25362; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:13:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809220013.RAA25362@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: More on the Intel-UNIX standard To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mheller@rhrk.uni-kl.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9809211417.ZM3839@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from "Allen Smith" at Sep 21, 98 02:17:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got a hold of these people. The Linux version of UDI is being implemented by Intel, and not directly: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/Cn091698.htm They also said that: o They would be "happy to see a FreeBSD port". o The easiest thing "may be to take the reference implementation and port it to FreeBSD". I believe they were talking about the SCO UnixWare 7 source, *not* the Intel/Linux source. o The current code is not usable for anything more than proof of concept. o The 0.85 code will allow for a straight-forward sync-up with the 1.0 specification. o The October date for 0.85 may slip into November at this point. o There is basic agreement that, "in markets where it makes sense", there will be an addemdum that specifies how the source standard gets bound to a particular binary convention, most likely IA32 (the Intel UNIX ABI) calling conventions and data management, and ELF format objects. This has not yet been formally proposed for any kind of standardization, as yet, however. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message