Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:23:19 +0400 From: Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x86_64 linuxulator patches Message-ID: <20080810132319.GA16145@dchagin.dialup.corbina.ru> In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0808100557p2c958c4fq80c4d39507e58bea@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080810072013.GA15196@dchagin.dialup.corbina.ru> <20080810115406.GR97161@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080810120424.GA15768@dchagin.dialup.corbina.ru> <20080810122124.GS97161@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080810124236.GA15947@dchagin.dialup.corbina.ru> <78cb3d3f0808100557p2c958c4fq80c4d39507e58bea@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > Hi, > > >> If emulating both ia32 and x86_64 simultaneously is technically feasible > >> (and I believe it is), then both should be available. i386->amd64 is > >> not the replacement step, this is an backward-compatible upgrade. > > > > I think that it not difficulty. two modules and two /compat/linux[SFX] > > but it is necesary to think well, > > and the opinion of ports maintainers is interesting. > > > > I'm working towards releasing a port for running Oracle XE w/ Linux > (x86) binaries on FreeBSD. Oracle XE has been working fine for me on > FreeBSD for quite a long time now and I'm pretty sure that the > Enterprise version does too. For the Enterprise releases there are > also (Linux) x86-64 binaries and for an Oracle DB I believe it would > make a difference. Enterprise version (buffer cache part) depends on shm_(open|unlink) behaviour, which differ in glibc-2.7 and fbsd. I now investigate sysvshm and it... > > Also it's not unusual for a system to run multiple version (even > 32bit/64bit) Oracle instances. So this would be a benefit. > ok thnx! -- Have fun! chd
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