Re: question on binary emulation of linux on netbsd/arm ports

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:54:44AM +0100, Thirupathiah Annapureddy wrote:

> Does the NetBSD binary emulation for linux, mac os x etc. work on NetBSD arm
> ports?

Seeing what you list, "no", or maybe "partially".

The details:
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the cited emulation is only an OS kernel emulation, not a CPU emulation.
e.g. NetBSD/i386 can emulate Linux/i386,
        NetBSD/powerpc can emulate Darwin/ppc. etc.

NetBSD/arm would be able to emulate Linux/arm (if we implemented this),
but can't emulate Linux/i386 or MacOSX/ppc or MacOSX/amd64, and to my
knowledge, there is no MacOSX/arm.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards,
        Ignatios Souvatzis