From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 00:48:43 2004 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 4F83116A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A010843D2F for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gofda-freebsd-amd64@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcKz1-0006GK-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:48:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcKyz-0006GC-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:48:37 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcKyz-0002rs-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:48:37 +0100 From: david Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 03:49:46 -0500 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <200401020925.16503.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200401020925.16503.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Sender: news Subject: Re: Status of linux compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 08:48:43 -0000 Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2004 05:03, david wrote: > >>servers. The main problem I can forsee is when running a 32bit linux >>binary on the 64bit system. Will this work at all and if so what issues >>can I expect. As soon as I get the amd64 machine I'll do my own tesing, >>but in the mean time, what do you guys have to say? > > > Peter sent in a blurb a while back about the intentions. Basically, FreeBSD > 32-bit binary support is top of the list, then when that works, Linux 32 i > scheduled to be worked on. See the previous "Linux emulation status" thread > here. > Thank you. I did read that thread, but I was just wondering if anything has changed since. So I assume linux compatibility is pretty much broke at the moment?