From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 22:48: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (gsi.enoreo.on.ca [209.82.52.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314A837B61A for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from matt (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e565lhK71259 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:47:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <000a01bfcf7a$cc810330$1200a8c0@matt> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Subject: iBCS status? Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:48:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01BFCF59.44BB2E60" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BFCF59.44BB2E60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I was recently playing around with iBCS support in FreeBSD 3.4/4.0, and = noticed that there hasn't been much done since 96/97. From what I can = see now, FreeBSD can't run SCO OpenServer 5.0 ELF binaries, which is a = feature I need desperately -- Linux has this functionality. If anyone is working on iBCS, let me know, otherwise I'll start hacking = away at the the emulation code to allow SCO OSR5 ELF stuff. Thanks, -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BFCF59.44BB2E60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi all,

I was recently playing around with iBCS = support in=20 FreeBSD 3.4/4.0, and noticed that there hasn't been much done since = 96/97. =20 From what I can see now, FreeBSD can't run SCO OpenServer 5.0 ELF = binaries,=20 which is a feature I need desperately -- Linux has this=20 functionality.

If anyone is working on iBCS, let me = know,=20 otherwise I'll start hacking away at the the emulation code to allow SCO = OSR5=20 ELF stuff.

Thanks,

--
Matthew Emmerton
GSI Computer=20 Services

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