9 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64Linux emulation status| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Owen Becker | Dec 10, 2003 8:41 pm | |
| Adriaan de Groot | Dec 11, 2003 4:33 am | |
| David O'Brien | Dec 11, 2003 7:42 am | |
| David O'Brien | Dec 11, 2003 7:44 am | |
| Adriaan de Groot | Dec 11, 2003 8:00 am | |
| Adriaan de Groot | Dec 11, 2003 8:07 am | |
| Brooks Davis | Dec 11, 2003 9:48 am | |
| Jimmie Houchin | Dec 11, 2003 2:51 pm | |
| Peter Wemm | Dec 11, 2003 3:23 pm |
| Subject: | Linux emulation status | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | David O'Brien (obr...@freebsd.org) | |
| Date: | Dec 11, 2003 7:42:32 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64 | |
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Owen Becker wrote:
Anyone know what the status of running i386 linux binaries on FreeBSD/amd64?
Peter Wemm and I have agreed that the priority for running binaries is: 1. FreeBSD/i386 ELF 2. 32-bit i386 Linux ELF 3. 64-bit amd64 Linux ELF
of course someone may have other priorities and work on things in a different order.
More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird going?
Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers have depended on having carnal knowledge of GCC's internal C++ ABI and exception mechanism. I don't understand why, but this makes it rather hard to port to new architectures.
I have some patches for Mozilla 1.4 with GCC 3.2. I started working on porting them, but December has become my work month from hell. It is important to me to get these into the Mozilla CVS tree for 1.6/0.8. Peter mentioned there seems to be some patches in the Mozilla bugzilla that might cover GCC 3.3. If someone is bored and wanted to spend some time on it... all I ask is that if someone does port them, to post the patches and give me a chance to Sheppard them into the Mozilla CVS tree so things are as AMD would like them to be (naming, etc...).
-- -- David (obr...@FreeBSD.org)