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Date:      Thu, 01 May 2014 16:34:45 -0700
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r265187 - in user/dchagin/lemul/sys: amd64/linux amd64/linux32 compat/linux i386/linux
Message-ID:  <5362DA15.4030409@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <844C08D2-4660-456A-9DCE-62A47A411688@bsdimp.com>
References:  <201405011402.s41E2lnv074130@svn.freebsd.org> <559801B7-3515-44C1-ABF4-2ED6D7F1A4F4@gmail.com> <20140501162640.GA19112@dchagin.static.corbina.net> <844C08D2-4660-456A-9DCE-62A47A411688@bsdimp.com>

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On 05/01/14 15:13, Warner Losh wrote:
> On May 1, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:17:45AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> Re this and the signals changes: Are you sure that these values are identical on all linux ABIs? Last time I checked, there was substantial variation between arm, x86 and mips for these values.
>>>
>> They are all different. I know. We emulate only x86, not arm or mips. So what the reason to case about this platform?
> The structure of the code is such that the other platforms can be added later. These changes make that harder than necessary when you could have move them to sys/x86 instead of making them fully MI.
>
> Anyway, just my humble feedback. I suspect we’ll get demand to support linux/arm64 binaries about this time next year based on the trajectories of the arm64 roll out...
>
> Warner

I believe Peter Grehan also had (has?) a branch with Linux/powerpc 
compat in it.
-Nathan



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