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To: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
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Jamie Howard writes:
 > On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Shawn Kelly O Shea wrote:
 > 
 > > About 6 months ago I was looking into kaffe on Linux alpha. Current
 > 
 > Does FreeBSD/Alpha run Linux/Alpha binaries?
 > 
 > Jamie
 > 

I'm working on it.  Its a bit more of a challenge than I'd thought,
primarily because linux/alpha is a bit more of a dirty hack than I'd
expected.  They've moved their system call numbers around & share a
number of calls with osf/1, their flags (eg, mmap flags, ioctl
numbers, etc) are also different.  This is probably a result of their
initial bootstrap from osf/1.

Still a lot of problems, but some (simple) things work:

<2:28pm>broil/gallatin:linux>uname -srm
FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT alpha
<2:28pm>broil/gallatin:linux>/compat/linux/bin/bash
bash$ /compat/linux/bin/uname 
Linux
bash$ /bin/uname  -srm
Linux 2.2.5 alpha
bash$ exit

However, nothing truely useful works yet.

Drew



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