Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:55:29 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 and wine Message-ID: <16903.61921.464891.267906@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <200502042214.32845.peter@wemm.org> References: <ae23a1980502040351130f91ff@mail.gmail.com> <200502042214.32845.peter@wemm.org>
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes: Peter> On Friday 04 February 2005 03:51 am, Nick Lozinsky wrote: >> Hello: >> >> Running FreeBSD5.3-STABLE on AMD64 3200+; I've attempted to `make >> install' wine from the ports tree, and surprisingle enough, it is >> only able to compile on I386 architectures. I looked through the >> Makefile, and saw the i386 support, only. Does wine have any >> support on amd64, or is it possible to compile on amd64 for >> backward 32-bit compatibility? >> >> Thanks in advance. Peter> I'm sorry to say that no, it isn't likely in the short term. Peter> Wine depends on the USER_LDT features to use a custom x86 Peter> segmentation table within a user process. The amd64 kernel Peter> does not have this. I have been thinking about how to Peter> implement this in a lower-cost way than what currently happens Peter> on the i386 kernel though. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; Peter> peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for Peter> nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 Well... the other question is: does AMD64 run ia32 executables? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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