Subject: Re: Linux emulation for SPARC?
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/31/1997 07:11:51
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Frank van der Linden wrote:
: Filling in the sparc specific part should not be hard. One problem is,
: that different ports of Linux have different system call numbers...
: I'm not sure if Linux/sparc does this as well, I am sure that
: Linux/alpha does it. That means you will need to overhaul the current
: scheme of using syscalls.master, etc, to generate the MI Linux syscall
: numbers/arguments.
Ew. Well, if they use different syscall numbers, there may need to be a #if
ARCH conditional wrapper in syscalls.master, and perhaps in code to fix
arguments... (overhauling the way syscalls.master does its thing doesn't
sound appealing).
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