Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:21:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... Message-ID: <199605210521.WAA29987@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960520171841.8818A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at May 20, 96 05:27:15 pm
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> > > switched me back to FreeBSD for good. My plan now is to try to bring in > > > Solaris/ELF support (possibly from NetBSD) so that I can run all the > > > Solaris "goodies" like ksh, Openwindows tools, Motif, and CDE (that, along > > > with the fact that I do Solaris/SPARC development at work/school, was the > > > main reason I bought Solaris/x86 [at educational discount] in the first > > > place). > > > > YES! I would love this. If nothing else, it would open up large portions > > of the Sun Catalyst catalog to us! > > Don't bet on it, Jordan! Sun promotes Solaris/SPARC much more heavily (as > rightly they should) than Solaris/x86 so there are about 10x as many > Catalyst apps for Solaris/SPARC as for x86. Still, Christos from NetBSD > says that their code runs OpenWindows apps whoohoo! Except for programs > which require ttsession which need LWP (i.e. threads). Also, he claimed > the code would be fairly portable to FreeBSD, and that our ELF loader > should be usable, so I'll give it a try and let you all know how it goes! Which LWP? The SunOS 4.x LWP, which is a user space library that uses aioread/aiowrite/aiowait/aiocancel, or the kernel threads in Solaris, also called LWP's? "There are no SunOS 4.x LWP's, there are only Solaris LWP's!" "We have *always* been at war with the East!" "There is no Dana, only Zuul!" The SunOS LWP's are pretty easy. The Solaris LWP's are a bit harder. They require kernel preemption and multithreading. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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