From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 07:32:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FEC1065670 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 07:32:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21288FC15 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 07:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p4FC43FAB.dip.t-dialin.net [79.196.63.171]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B2CD844BD7; Sun, 13 May 2012 09:32:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown (IO.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.12]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98D9C1CED; Sun, 13 May 2012 09:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 09:32:19 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Jason Bacon Message-ID: <20120513093219.0000635c@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4FA08155.8060600@tds.net> References: <4FA08155.8060600@tds.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs42 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 5B2CD844BD7.A4999 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.528, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, AWL -0.12, J_CHICKENPOX_31 0.60, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1337499146.65044@kKtDNBGGdyfOOw2dxyZ78g X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit Linux status X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 07:32:39 -0000 On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:35:33 -0500 Jason Bacon wrote: > > Just wondering if there is anything available in this area yet (even > alpha quality). AFAIK: there is no patch available to test and nobody is working at one. > In my present job,m I have access to a number of commercial Linux > products such as Matlab, Abaqus, Ansys, LS-DYNA, ... > > I'd be more than happy to test them under FreeBSD if there's a 64-bit > linux_base available. This would give FreeBSD a big boost in the > area of scientific computing. It's not just a 64-bit linux_base. First there needs to be a 64-bit linuxulator in the kernel. See the mails in the archive of this mailinglist for more info. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137