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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:40:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        alexandr@hawk.pearson.udel.edu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SVR4 Emulation
Message-ID:  <199701270740.IAA06670@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
In-Reply-To: <32EBDCC3.15FB7483@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jan 26, 97 02:37:55 pm"

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In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote:
> Jerry Alexandratos wrote:
> 
> 
> talk to christos..
> he said he'd help us port it to FreeBSD.. (he wrote it)

It should be pretty easy, we allready have the ELF loader
around, you just hook it on there, that should take care of
the most convoluted vm things :)
The rest should be pretty straight forward, evt look at the
iBCS2 emu, its stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H ported from NetBSD as
well....

> > Just a quick question.  I'm looking at grabbing the SVR4 emulation
> > package from Net/OpenBSD and trying to port it over to FreeBSD.  Can
> > anyone give me any pointers on this?
> > 
> > I figure if it's just a matter of moving over some of the libs and
> > includes, then that shouldn't be too hard to tackle.  If it needs
> > hacking in the vm code, well that's out of my league (can't hurt to try
> > though).
> > 
> >         --Jerry
> > 
> > 8) Jerry Alexandratos                %  "Nothing inhabits my    (8
> > 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu         %   thoughts, and oblivion (8
> > 8) darkstar@canary.pearson.udel.edu  %   drives my desires."    (8
> 


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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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