Subject: Re: compat_linux/amd64 need testers
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@NetBSD.org>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: port-amd64
Date: 06/27/2005 14:17:21
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:15:20PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I made some prgress with compat_linux/amd64. It's probably not ready for
> running interesting programs yet, but we need to try.
> 
> I'm looking for some testers that could try running stuff and discovers
> the remaining problems. 

I just discovered that the uname(2) syscall does return a different
value, `amd64' instead of `x86_64':

njoly@lanfeust [~/NetBSD]> /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin/uname -a
Linux lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr 2.4.18 #0 Wed Feb 20 20:00:02 CET 2002 amd64 amd64 amd64 GNU/Linux

njoly@raclette-tete2 [~]> uname -a
Linux raclette-tete2.calcul.pasteur.fr 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 19 11:28:26 CST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It seems that Linux does not use our machine definition, at least for that
architecture, but machine_arch instead.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.