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Re: emap



  Hello!

yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) writes:

>> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> writes:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50:58PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>>>> Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
>>>> >> hi,
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> what's the status of emap and pipe?
>>>> >> 
>>>> >
>>>> > ... and encourage our users to use amd64 instead
>>>> > of i386.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sorry to intervene, what about WINE? Unless we're going to have it
>>>> functional on amd64, encouraging is useless.
>>>
>>> I don't understand your comment.  Are you suggesting that a large fraction 
>>> of
>>> NetBSD/i386 users use WINE and therefore would not be able to switch to the
>>> amd64 port?
>> 
>> I mean that those users who could switch most probably have switched already.
>> And one of serious reasons to stay on i386 is functional WINE.
>
> as we now have non-stack-based pthread_self (thanks joerg), porting
> the recent versions of wine should not be too hard.  does it help wine
> on amd64?

Thanks for the information, I'll try to check (though I need to get current 
amd64 setup first).


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