From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 16:56:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09114 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09107 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA14200; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:26:24 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA16391; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:26:23 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980930092623.F15172@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:26:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Carlos C. Tapang" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? References: <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex>; from Carlos C. Tapang on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:40:42PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 29 September 1998 at 16:40:42 -0700, Carlos C. Tapang wrote: > I have been watching with interest your progress in converting from aout to > ELF. I am not ELFish and am seriously considering the idea of starting all > over and converting, at least the FreeBSD core kernel, into Microsoft's PE > format. I understand that one of the things that need to be done is to > change the bootloader to recognize the PE format. Are there other things I > need to change? (The application loader will need to be modified also, of > course). > > You are probably wondering, what for? Well, this is just the start of a much > bigger project I am contemplating. I am thinking of starting a project along > the lines of WINE, a Windows emulator for Linux. But instead of just an > emulator, I want to build a Windows clone. The clone will use the FreeBSD > core kernel (use process/task/thread management, virtual memory modules > only). I'm sure most of you will have a strong opinion one way or another > about this. Let's hear them! Interesting. This parallels my ongoing work in rewriting FreeBSD in GNU Emacs LISP. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message