Subject: Re: Mac-On-Unix project
To: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/09/1999 11:31:40
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Grant Stockly wrote:

> I might start a Mac-On-Unix project.
> 
> How much work would it take to get a single LinuxPPC binary to run under
> NetBSD?

I'm not sure, but I've been interested in this before.

I think what we need are:

1) a way to recognize Linux ELF binaries. That shouldn't be too hard as we
support Linux ELF on i386 too - the MI bits should be there.

2) to set up all the syscalls for linux PPC (which aren't the same as the
syscalls for linux i386, etc).

I think someone's started on this (making linux emulation work on more
than just i386), but it needs cleaning up.

I'd first suggest trying to get staticly-linked binaries to work, and then
move on to shared library support.

Take care,

Bill