Re: amd64 and COMPAT_FREEBSD ?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:57:54PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20090129130236.GA3117%antioche.eu.org@localhost>,
> Manuel Bouyer  <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> >Hi
> >what's the status of COMPAT_FREEBSD on amd64 ? I'd like to run the
> >FreeBSD icp-vortex management tool (the linux binary isn't compatible
> >with our kernel interface). To make it worse this tool is 32bits ...
> 
> Non functional. I suspect that you would need a freebsd32 like we have
> linux32.

Also, our FreeBSD emulation is *really* old.  It was written for
FreeBSD 2 and I don't know if it was even updated for FreeBSD 4.  It is
quite unlikely that binaries for any currently supported version of
FreeBSD will work.

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