Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:58:36 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation status Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0312111647280.2661-100000@odin.cs.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031211154352.GB58813@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> The Linux we really should base this on is SUSE Linux 9.0. Fedora c2 if
> we really have to. There really aren't many programs that are AMD64
> Linux that utilize the extra functionality of 64-bit'ness. So I think
> we've some breathing room here until the need for AMD64 Linux compat
> becomes pressing.
Just to get this straight: does that mean that "we" (that's you, David,
along with Peter) have chosen to do linux i386 32-bit ABI emulation first
and to wait-and-see for the amd64 (x86_64 in linuxland) ABI emulation? Is
there any hope of it being there "soon"?
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