Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:26:45 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Horst=20G=FCnther=20Burkhardt=20III?= <horst@sxemacs.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apologies for failing. Message-ID: <20081014022645.EKE01815@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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>No no no no no. Linux emulation DOES exist in the freeBSD >kernel. I ... know that :) It doesn't exist in the FreeBSD/ppc kernel. >(Has FreeBSD-ppc had all the binary emulation stuff stripped >out of it, or could I theoretically run a linux binary that >was built for ppc?) No. The Linux emu code isn't there, and the ppc-specific layer that converts FreeBSD<->Linux syscalls/signal etc hasn't been written. NB, for anyone interested in looking at that, there is an excellent series of articles by Emmanuel Dreyfus on the NetBSD/ppc Linux emu implementation that pretty much describes the work needed, sans NetBSD/FreeBSD differences: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/05/10/linux_bsd.html later, Peter.
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