Re: NetBSD-Mach?

[ws%kurt.tools.de@localhost (Wolfgang Solfrank)]

> While I can see how emulations for Solaris/PPC and Linux/PPC would work
> (having being involved in an implementation).  I'm afraid that you would
> find AIX another kettle of fish.  Issues include POWER compatibility,
> that @*&#^$&*( slab of code at very low addresses, the use of the
> segment registers, ...

Hmm, emulating Solaris/PPC wouldn't be that easy, as it is little-endian,
as far as I know anyway, and running programs with different endianness isn't
supported currently.

On the other hand I don't see AIX as a problem, apart from the POWER
compatibility.  Slab code shouldn't be a problem, since programs can get the
complete 4 GB address space for their use (well, currently apart from the
topmost page due to limitations in the vm system).  And segment registers
aren't user visible anyway.
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