From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 07:44:17 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 743E216A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE84243D1D for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:44:14 -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 hBBFhuRm059159; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:43:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBBFhr1i059157; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:43:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:43:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Adriaan de Groot Message-ID: <20031211154352.GB58813@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20031211044048.GA1175@careflow.com> <200312111315.05110.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312111315.05110.adridg@cs.kun.nl> 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: Owen Becker 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 15:44:17 -0000 On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Peter wrote (a while back): > > I've been thinking about this for the last day or so. We also need to > be able to run 32 bit linux binaries, probably more urgently than 64 bit > linux binaries. The thought of having two linux emulators in the kernel > gave me a headache. > > So that's a bit of a pain. The linux_base-8 port certainly hasn't been updated > for amd64 (it claims to be i386 specific). And as long as there are still no > loadable kernel modules for amd64, kldload linux isn't an option either. The Linux we really should base this on is SUSE Linux 9.0. Fedora c2 if we really have to. There really aren't many programs that are AMD64 Linux that utilize the extra functionality of 64-bit'ness. So I think we've some breathing room here until the need for AMD64 Linux compat becomes pressing. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)