Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:49:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> 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: <19980930114936.M15172@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199809300225.MAA02467@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 12:25:06PM %2B1000 References: <19980930092623.F15172@freebie.lemis.com> <199809300225.MAA02467@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Wednesday, 30 September 1998 at 12:25:06 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > 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. This is very much a matter of opinion. Some say that Java's day is past, and maybe we should use Perl, TCL or Guile. Despite the GPL, I tend to Guile, and was planning to migrate the LISP version in that direction. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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