Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:26:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Carlos C. Tapang" <ctapang@easystreet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? Message-ID: <19980930092623.F15172@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex>; from Carlos C. Tapang on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:40:42PM -0700 References: <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex>
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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
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