Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:46:46 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, sko@eth0.net, FreeBSD-Alpha <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Java Message-ID: <37CA1AC6.2A77C6B4@airnet.net> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05.9908291059280.23566-100000@comet.connix.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908291245360.24732-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu> <14281.27642.391620.757352@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Jamie Howard writes: > > On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Shawn Kelly O Shea wrote: > > > > > About 6 months ago I was looking into kaffe on Linux alpha. Current > > > > Does FreeBSD/Alpha run Linux/Alpha binaries? > > > > Jamie > > > > I'm working on it. Its a bit more of a challenge than I'd thought, > primarily because linux/alpha is a bit more of a dirty hack than I'd > expected. They've moved their system call numbers around & share a > number of calls with osf/1, their flags (eg, mmap flags, ioctl > numbers, etc) are also different. This is probably a result of their > initial bootstrap from osf/1. > > Still a lot of problems, but some (simple) things work: > > <2:28pm>broil/gallatin:linux>uname -srm > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT alpha > <2:28pm>broil/gallatin:linux>/compat/linux/bin/bash > bash$ /compat/linux/bin/uname > Linux > bash$ /bin/uname -srm > Linux 2.2.5 alpha > bash$ exit > > However, nothing truely useful works yet. Hey, if rc5des for linux/alpha works, I'm happy. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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