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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:04:56 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux emulation on FreeBSD AMD64
Message-ID:  <fg05l9$n32$2@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4721AB07.20708@novakom.com.ua>
References:  <4721AB07.20708@novakom.com.ua>

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Valery V.Chikalov wrote:
> Hi, list.

> Now being inspired the great performance improvements on multiprocessor=
s
> configurations I am trying to switch to FreeBSD 7.0 version, moreover o=
n
> AMD64 architecture. Must I expect some regression in support old Linux
> application here? Are some theoretical obstacles exists that linux
> application which successfully worked on FreeBSD from 5.0 up to 6.2
> can not be running on 7.0 AMD64?

AFAIK Linux emulation on AMD64 works only for 32-bit code, so you have
practically two emulation layers: linux-freebsd and 32-64. There's all
kinds of things that might go wrong.

This is a "generic" answer, I don't really know the exact answer to your
question.



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