Re: Emulating linux binaries on ARM64

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 09:10:05PM +0200, Mohamed Atef wrote:
> Hello there,
>     I am a computer systems engineering student in my final year, i'd like
> to contribute to your community.
> I am interested in operating Systems, runtime systems, and compilers.
> I have strong C knowledge, C++, Data structures and algorithms, I am
> familiar with assembly (x86_x64, MIPs ).
> I am willing to start with easy projects and then develop myself to be able
> to bigger ones.
> I saw that one and it seems good to start with.
> I installed NetBsd on VMWare and I am trying to get familiar with pkgsrc.
> Could you tell me please how to get the pre knowledge required for it?
> I wish to hear from you soon
> 
> Thanks
>       Mohamed

Hello Mohamed,

I think the kernel parts of this project were already completed by Rin:

https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/iJ5Xnn765YDY03aD

There is still work to be done on improving the architecture-independent
parts of compat_linux, or you could select a different project.