From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 05:34:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA26449 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 05:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA26444 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 05:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA32592; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 05:28:07 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA07871; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 00:11:38 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602051341.AAA07871@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Willows To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 00:11:37 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: <9602051104.AA04577@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at Feb 5, 96 12:04:54 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk garyj@frt.dec.com stands accused of saying: > I played with it a little on the weekend. What I'm currently trying > to complete is an ExecFBSD.c. This is where the LDT stuff is handled. > I started with the ExecLinux.c as an example. Linux' handling of the > LDTs is completely different from the way FBSD does it. So basically > I (or someone) need(s) to write it from scratch. Please, people 8) Send some mail to Jordan, and get yourselves on the alias at throck. The patches I put there were just the trivial stuff so that you didn't have to chase them down. There's already an ExecFreeBSD been written (Sujal Patel if memory serves), and a call out for an i386 assembly guru to work on ExecUtl.S >From what I understand, TWIN's LDT requirements are significantly different from Wine's, and there are some known bugs in the BSD LDT code that are also being worked on. > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[