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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:33:17PM -0800, Gerald C. Simmons wrote:
> Can someone more savy of the NetBSD Linux Emulation comment?
>=20
> Do we just need to re-build the libraries?

You wish. :^>

We almost definitely need to emulate some more syscalls, since they
almost definitely added some. (Hey, that's allowed, they changed the
minor version number...)

On the bright side, the research for this just involves a bit of
digging in parts of the Linux kernel with which I'm actually familiar
and comparing of versions in CVS repositories. It is the NetBSD
/emul end of things that is now and always has been black magic to
me.

Presuming no one beats me to it (and no more managers at my day
job destroy Oracle DBs by doing an rm when they meant ls and
destroying the files where the tables once lived), I'll see if I
can't take a swing at it this weekend.

I'll also see how well-behaved the Solaris version is (tangentially,
an /emul/solaris on sparc and sparc64 would rock, though it's a
little harder to figure how to code it for obvious reasons) and
see if I can't try the Linux version on RedHat 7.2 (I know, I know,
not my choice). Maybe Debian with a 2.4 kernel too.

If I get stuck, I'll probably move my spewing to tech-kern, where
it'll be more apropos.

--=20
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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