Hello. 

Do the arm ports of NetBSD 3.1 support Linux emulation?  I'm interested in 
arm in general and cats in particular. 

Here's what I've gathered: 

1.  The man page for COMPAT_LINUX(8) says arm supports this. 

2.  http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-linux.html says GENERIC kernel 
enables this by default. 

3.  I tried a statically linked (so I won't have to worry about shared 
libraries yet) Hello World program compiled on Debian Etch, with this 
result: 

  Exec format error.  Wrong Architecture. 

4.  objdump and readelf both successfully dissect the file.  objdump can 
even disassemble the file, and correctly identifies it as elf32-littlearm. 

5.  I am running this emulated under gxemul, installed with the images 
mentioned in: 

  
http://www.gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#netbsdcatsinsta 
ll 

I start the machine with: 

  gxemul -XEcats -d nbsd_cats.img netbsd.aout-GENERIC.gz 


Thank you in advance for any help/pointers you can provide me! 

  - sam -