Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:50:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preliminary support for running 32-bit Linux binaries Message-ID: <16595.3916.248414.115695@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040617154353.GA54873@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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Tim Robbins writes: > 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. Awesome! I was sort of half planning to do this myself if nobody else stepped up, but I was waiting for module support. Did you do this all monolithically? Wow! Anyway, I'm very happy that you did this. > 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 had a little trouble applying this patch, since the diff referred to new files as: ../src.vendor/sys/amd64/linux/linux.h Thu Jan 1 10:00:00 1970 rather than /dev/null. This seemed to confuse my patch. I needed to hand-edit the patch and replace these new file references with /dev/null instead in order to get the new files created. I also made the sys/amd64/linux/ directory by hand. Anyway, once I got the new files extracted, things went without a hitch. Realplayer, OO, Acrobat, etc. Nice job! > 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. Question -- do you plan to allow 32-bit and 64-bit linux modules to coexist? I can see a need for 64-bit compat at some point... Especially if people want to run PGI compiled fortran or c programs. Thanks! Drewhome | help
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