Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 17:03:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org (John Dyson) Cc: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, winter@jurai.net, kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is the Linux emulator not working for you? Message-ID: <199512170003.RAA08507@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512161409.GAA13508@freefall.freebsd.org> from "John Dyson" at Dec 16, 95 06:09:13 am
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> I have been evaluating the possibility of the VM system properly > supporting ill constructed a.out formats (like those with 1K offset) > and it would not be too hard. It would break coherency -- but > would add maybe 25-50 lines of code (very simple.) Since it is > bad (not allowed) to modify a running binary anyway, the cost (in > functionality) is low. I definitely plan to add it for 2.2. But > if someone has a better (easier) solution -- PLEASE go for it!!! You should talk to Matt Day (mday@elbereth.org). He has been working on VOP_GETPAGE/VOP_PUTPAGE style linear address caching modification (ala SunOS/SVR4) if you think this will completely torpedo coherency. You would have to get the details from him; he was talking about rolling the changes back in. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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