From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 9 16:47:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA02713 for alpha-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:47:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA02698 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:46:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU) Received: from hurricane.cs.duke.edu (hurricane.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.1]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA20847; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:46:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by hurricane.cs.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.7.3) id TAA20664; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:46:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 19:46:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801100046.TAA20664@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-Reply-To: <11662.884391232@time.cdrom.com> References: <11662.884391232@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Ah. There's already some DU compatability code in NetBSD anyway. > > Really? Is that working again? I can think of more than one ALPHA > owner who would switch to NetBSD in a heartbeat (from Linux/ALPHA) if > they could only run the DUX version of Netscape. Everything I've seen > on my NetBSD 1.3 sources indicates that this feature is currently > disabled and broken, however. Do you know something I don't? ;-) > > Jordan Its currenly festering because it only runs static binaries. It only runs static binaries because the current NetBSD/alpha pmap implementation is limited to a virtual address space of 8Gb. This prevents dynamic binaries from running because the DU /sbin/loader wants to be loaded at 0x3ff80000000. See sys/compat/osf1/README.dynamic for a much more detailed explaination. Drew