Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:37:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary emulations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970116233724.304A-100000@hamby1> In-Reply-To: <E0vkngA-0002CM-00@rover.village.org>
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Yes, the SVR4 emulator in NetBSD/OpenBSD would be an excellent starting point for a FreeBSD port. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, BeOS, or NT, eh? | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This space intentionally left blank." On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970115201333.190C-100000@hamby1> Jake Hamby writes: > : We already have the ELF binary support. The hardest part will be adding > : all the syscall support for the SVR4 API, and providing the appropriate > : shared libraries. I suggest you look at Linux's IBCS2 emulator, which > : supports Solaris/x86, SCO, and XENIX reasonably well. > > Does the SYSV4 emulator in NetBSD or OpenBSD help at all here? > > Warner > >
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