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Subject: Re: 64 bit linux binary support
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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 01/15/16 11:20, Graham Allan wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 09:38:50AM -0553, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> Again, my original question pertained to 64-bit linux binary
>> support. 32-bit is there & working (linux ABI layer), I was just
>> curious about how 64-bit was/is going.
> I was sure I'd seen some news about it, but the most recent I could find
> was in the 2Q 2015 status report:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.html#Linux-Binary-Emulation-Layer-Upgrade
>
> G.
>


Now that you mention it, I *think* I had seen that earlier as well. 
Sadly, no mention of back-porting to 9.3R :-/ ....

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