From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 18 15:53:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3815106566C for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:53:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jau@oxit.fi) Received: from smtp.oxit.fi (smtp.oxit.fi [193.185.41.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CD98FC18 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.oxit.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D566C0433 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:53:56 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.oxit.fi Received: from smtp.oxit.fi ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (huskvarna.oxit.fi [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SiJXAN6wC1XN for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:53:53 +0200 (EET) Received: from [192.168.1.131] (ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi [193.64.26.117]) by smtp.oxit.fi (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CB406C02B1 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:53:53 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <4F660510.30700@oxit.fi> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:53:52 +0200 From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120314 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: AMD64 Linux emulation for FreeBSD on AMD64 ??? 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, 18 Mar 2012 15:53:59 -0000 Hi all, I suppose someone may have been thought about this already before. Anyhow just in case I am the first one to raise the question... Would it not be better to install 64 bit amd64 Linux libraries and binaries on an amd64 system running FreeBSD? This would make it easier to use things like e.g. linux flash plugin on amd64 based FreeBSD systems. If 32 bit linux compatibility is also considered useful on 64 bit systems, it could be done much like the native 32 bit FreeBSD libraries. I mean on a 64 bit FreeBSD system there could be /compat/linux for 64 bit linux libraries and binaries and /compat/linux32 for the 32 bit stuff. This is just an idea. I hope you like it, though. ;-) Cheers, --jau