From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 07:41:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A1916A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6EF43D09 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBBFfcRm059139; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBBFfZZT059138; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:41:29 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Owen Becker Message-ID: <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation status X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:41:56 -0000 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Owen Becker wrote: > Anyone know what the status of running i386 linux binaries on > FreeBSD/amd64? Peter Wemm and I have agreed that the priority for running binaries is: 1. FreeBSD/i386 ELF 2. 32-bit i386 Linux ELF 3. 64-bit amd64 Linux ELF of course someone may have other priorities and work on things in a different order. > More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird going? Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers have depended on having carnal knowledge of GCC's internal C++ ABI and exception mechanism. I don't understand why, but this makes it rather hard to port to new architectures. I have some patches for Mozilla 1.4 with GCC 3.2. I started working on porting them, but December has become my work month from hell. It is important to me to get these into the Mozilla CVS tree for 1.6/0.8. Peter mentioned there seems to be some patches in the Mozilla bugzilla that might cover GCC 3.3. If someone is bored and wanted to spend some time on it... all I ask is that if someone does port them, to post the patches and give me a chance to Sheppard them into the Mozilla CVS tree so things are as AMD would like them to be (naming, etc...). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)