Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:25:06 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: ctapang@easystreet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? Message-ID: <199809300225.MAA02467@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980930092623.F15172@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 30, 98 09:26:23 am"
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 September 1998 at 16:40:42 -0700, Carlos C. Tapang wrote: > > I have been watching with interest your progress in converting from aout to > > ELF. I am not ELFish and am seriously considering the idea of starting all > > over and converting, at least the FreeBSD core kernel, into Microsoft's PE > > format. I understand that one of the things that need to be done is to > > change the bootloader to recognize the PE format. Are there other things I > > need to change? (The application loader will need to be modified also, of > > course). > > > > You are probably wondering, what for? Well, this is just the start of a much > > bigger project I am contemplating. I am thinking of starting a project along > > the lines of WINE, a Windows emulator for Linux. But instead of just an > > emulator, I want to build a Windows clone. The clone will use the FreeBSD > > core kernel (use process/task/thread management, virtual memory modules > > only). I'm sure most of you will have a strong opinion one way or another > > about this. Let's hear them! > > Interesting. This parallels my ongoing work in rewriting FreeBSD in > GNU Emacs LISP. I thought it has decided that rewriting the FreeBSD kernel in Java was the more portable solution. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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