Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:46:11 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. Message-ID: <199801100046.TAA20664@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <11662.884391232@time.cdrom.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980109120241.1261I-100000@cynic.portal.ca> <11662.884391232@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Ah. There's already some DU compatability code in NetBSD anyway. > > Really? Is that working again? I can think of more than one ALPHA > owner who would switch to NetBSD in a heartbeat (from Linux/ALPHA) if > they could only run the DUX version of Netscape. Everything I've seen > on my NetBSD 1.3 sources indicates that this feature is currently > disabled and broken, however. Do you know something I don't? ;-) > > Jordan Its currenly festering because it only runs static binaries. It only runs static binaries because the current NetBSD/alpha pmap implementation is limited to a virtual address space of 8Gb. This prevents dynamic binaries from running because the DU /sbin/loader wants to be loaded at 0x3ff80000000. See sys/compat/osf1/README.dynamic for a much more detailed explaination. Drew
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