On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:03:08 GMT 
 christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

[ Yah, this wasn't christos... but I don't have the original sender's mail... ]

 > >I know.  I've already downloaded the Linux 2.1.61 kernel sources from
 > >SunSITE, and I'm just wading through them trying to figure out (with barely
 > >any knowledge of the SPARC instruction set) how to make a Linux
 > >compatibility module for NetBSD/sparc.  I've just completed the syscall
 > >mappings, and am now adding relevant code for a few syscalls in sparclinux
 > >that are not in linux/x86.

Remember, syscall numbers aren't the only things you'll need to worry about.
Virtually every constant and structure in our Linux emulation code is going
to have to be checked, and possibly duplicated/tweaked, because almost
all of that stuff is machine-dependent in Linux.  (Gotta love those guys!)

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