From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 16 20:19:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC8311619 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:16:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25400; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:16:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:16:55 -0500 (EST) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199902170416.XAA25400@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, doconnor@gsoft.com.au Subject: Re: SMP and SO5.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > I downloaded Star Office 5 and only THEN realised that the code for doing linux thread > emulation is #ifndef SMP :) Still, after downloading 70 meg over a 56k modem and paying > 19c/meg I was gonna try the sucker regardless.. And well, it works! > > The install hung at the end, after its done everything, so I killed it, but after that I > can run it with (seemingly) no problems.. (Except for the 2000 odd 'shared address space > fork attempted' messages in my syslog) > > I only had a quick fiddle, but it started up everything fine and ran quite well.. > > The install was a pain tho, as I had to unpack the setup program (its a self extracting > zip) and rename the libs in it to lower case and then add an LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to > them, but apart from that it was OK. > > Its worth noting though, that eMusic which uses Linux threads doesn't work under > emulation (it just hangs) I think I'll boot a non-SMP kernel and have a go ('cause it > took me an hour to find all of the $!@$ dependancies it needs because Linux ldd doesn't > work anymore) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow linux threads to run on SMP. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message