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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, port-amd64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-amd64/43833: SVR$ compat support missing for amd64
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 06:48:23 -0400
On Sep 3, 11:45am, Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost
(Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: port-amd64/43833: SVR$ compat support missing for amd64
| >Number: 43833
| >Category: port-amd64
| >Synopsis: SVR$ compat support missing for amd64
| >Confidential: no
| >Severity: non-critical
| >Priority: medium
| >Responsible: port-amd64-maintainer
| >State: open
| >Class: change-request
| >Submitter-Id: net
| >Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 03 11:45:01 +0000 2010
| >Originator: W. Stukenbrock
| >Release: NetBSD 5.0.2
| >Organization:
| Dr. Nagler & Company GmbH
|
| >Environment:
|
|
| System: NetBSD s051 5.0.2 NetBSD 5.0.2 (NSW-S051) #2: Thu Aug 12 18:30:48
CEST 2010 wgstuken@s051:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/NSW-S051 amd64
| Architecture: x86_64
| Machine: amd64
| >Description:
| There is still no SVR4 compat support for this architecture.
|
| It would be very niche to have that in order to run Solaris X86 binaries on a NetBSD system.
|
| My concrete problem is, that the JRE for linux (64 and 32) bit will not work reliable in the
| linux or linux32 emulations. There seems to be a timing problem during
startup of the engine,
| so that it will crash most times. If the machine-code-compiler is
deactivated on the command line
| for the java program, the JRE comes up most times - still not all the
times.
| I simply hope that JRE would run much more stable on Solaris as it does
on any Linux and that
| it would work in the emulation too.
| At the moment it is impossible to run a JRE on a NetBSD-5.0.2-amd64
system in a reliable way.
|
| A quick-try from my side by just enabling the SVR4 compat in an amd64 kernel shows, that
| (at least) some lines in files.amd64 are missing (see below) and that
the machine dependen headerfiles
| svr4_machdep.h and svr4_32_machdep.h must be written.
|
| "missing" lines in files.amd64:
| # SVR4 binary compatibility (COMPAT_SVR4)
| include "compat/svr4/files.svr4"
| # file arch/i386/i386/svr4_machdep.c compat_svr4
| # file arch/i386/i386/svr4_sigcode.S compat_svr4
| # file arch/i386/i386/svr4_syscall.c compat_svr4
|
| # SVR4 binary compatibility (COMPAT_SVR4_32)
| include "compat/svr4_32/files.svr4_32"
| # file arch/i386/i386/svr4_machdep.c compat_svr4_32
| # file arch/i386/i386/svr4_sigcode.S compat_svr4_32
| # file arch/i386/i386/svr4_syscall.c compat_svr4_32
| END of missing lines
|
| Accedently my knowledge about the stack-frame differences of 32 and 64 bit Intel-CPU's is nearly zero.
| So I cannot guess a valid svr4_*machdep.h file and try if the rest of
the emulation is already working.
|
Is there a place to download solaris binaries so we can test?
Also the linux emulation works much better in NetBSD/current and also you
can build native java binaries using the OpenJDK.
christos