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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2014 09:20:16 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r265187 - in user/dchagin/lemul/sys: amd64/linux amd64/linux32 compat/linux i386/linux
Message-ID:  <201405020920.16637.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140502044119.GA1354@dchagin.static.corbina.net>
References:  <201405011402.s41E2lnv074130@svn.freebsd.org> <844C08D2-4660-456A-9DCE-62A47A411688@bsdimp.com> <20140502044119.GA1354@dchagin.static.corbina.net>

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On Friday, May 02, 2014 12:41:19 am Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:13:09PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > On May 1, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:17:45AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > >> Re this and the signals changes: Are you sure that these values are 
identical on all linux ABIs? Last time I checked, there was substantial 
variation between arm, x86 and mips for these values.
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > They are all different. I know. We emulate only x86, not arm or mips. So 
what the reason to case about this platform?
> > 
> > The structure of the code is such that the other platforms can be added 
later. These changes make that harder than necessary when you could have move 
them to sys/x86 instead of making them fully MI.
> > 
> > Anyway, just my humble feedback. I suspect we'll get demand to support 
linux/arm64 binaries about this time next year based on the trajectories of 
the arm64 roll out...
> > 
> 
> yes, I ponder about something like sys/compat/linux/x86linux.h, thanks.

I think I would prefer sys/x86/linux to mirror sys/amd64/linux32 and 
sys/i386/linux.  You could put headers and/or .c files in that directory.

-- 
John Baldwin



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