From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 20:38:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EED16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:38:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A38243D55 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:38:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0HKcIU1029247 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0HKcI0K029246 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:38:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050117203818.GA29131@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Subject: [RFC] what to name linux 32-bit compat X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:38:19 -0000 [ Respect the Reply-to:! ] /usr/ports Linux 32-bit compatibility on AMD64 is a mess and too rough for what is expected of FreeBSD. Anyway... We need to decide how to have both Linux i686 and Linux amd64 compat support live side-by-side. At the moment my leanings are for /compat/linux32 and /compat/linux. We could also go with /compat/linux and /compat/linux64 <- taking a page from the Linux LSB naming convention (ie, they have lib and lib64). Linux 32-bit support is most interesting -- that is how we get Acrobat reader and some other binary-only ports. The only Linux 64-bit things we might want to run that truly matter 32-bit vs. 64-bit is Oracle and IBM-DB2. For other applications 32-bit vs. 64-bit is mostly a "Just Because Its There(tm)" thing. So making Linux 32-bit support the cleanest looking from a /usr/ports POV has some merit. What do others think? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)