From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 20:34:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7BA37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from david.io.com (david.io.com [199.170.88.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8871A43F93 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:34:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from io.com (aus-as2-164.io.com [199.170.89.164]) by david.io.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with SMTP id h2H4Y7304161 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:34:07 -0600 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:33:49 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make a linux binary run on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200303161337.00677.taxman@acd.net> Message-ID: <20030316223031.P1576@pearl.io.com> References: <20030316082949.Y572@pearl.io.com> <200303161337.00677.taxman@acd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, taxman wrote: > This seems pretty clear. The linuix syscall that this program uses > is not supported on FreeBSD. The linux binary compatibility is > pretty good for userland binaries and so forth. But any time you > get into hardware, you're stepping closer into that 10% of linux > code that will not run on FreeBSD. > > It seems your only option would be to port that source code to > FreeBSD, and use the right syscalls. Try an email to -hackers to > see if anybody has any ideas on that. > > Personally given how cheap a simple working videocard can be, ($10 > used) I don't know if I would beat my head against a wall to try to > get it working. But if you want to experiment for fun, then by all > means don't let me discourage. Well, I'm glad to hear money grows on trees where you are. Yet another piece of hardware that I can't use after playing FreeBSD roulette - and linux compatibility is yet another tout that turns out to be bullshit. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message