From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Apr 8 15:31:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03631 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from meter.eng.uci.edu (root@meter.eng.uci.edu [128.200.85.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03597; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swallace@ece.uci.edu) Received: from newport.ece.uci.edu (root@newport.ece.uci.edu [128.200.61.6]) by meter.eng.uci.edu (8.8.8/) with ESMTP id PAA08643; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:31:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by newport.ece.uci.edu (8.8.8) id PAA19335; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804082231.PAA19335@newport.ece.uci.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Linux emulation error. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:19:01 PST." <992.889665541@time.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 15:30:58 -0700 From: Steven Wallace Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> I'm attempting to get WABI for Caldera Linux running, I have gottent the > > If that's your goal then be prepared to spend a lot of time hacking > on the Linux emulator - it doesn't come close to being able to > run Linux WABI in its present shape. > A year ago I spent some time writing the needed routines (user ldt, etc.) to get WABI running. It still had some floating point problem. I saw something similiar in other linux programs and became pretty convinced there was some FP compat. bug that I could not decipher. If anyone would like to continue my efforts, I'll donate the code to you. Who knows, it might work off the bat from linux emul fixes since then. Steven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message