From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 22:55:31 2005 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 E4C6916A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:55:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF3A43D53 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:55:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 19A55E117; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:55:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 7CA926379; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:55:29 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16903.61921.464891.267906@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:55:29 -0500 To: Peter Wemm In-Reply-To: <200502042214.32845.peter@wemm.org> References: <200502042214.32845.peter@wemm.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 16) "Corporate Culture" XEmacs Lucid cc: Nick Lozinsky cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 and wine X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:55:32 -0000 >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Wemm 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================