Subject: Re: linux emulation on sparc
To: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/17/2002 01:51:01
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0100, Rasputin wrote:
> 
> As a followup to my earlier post re: blackdown JDK:
> 
> does COMPAT_LINUX work on Sparc?
> 
> If not, think I found the reason blackdown won't work :)

yes, you're right. in 1.5 it's i386 only, in 1.6 and -current it's
also supported on arm, alpha, m68k and powerpc.

I would also like to see linux emulation on sparc, but I guess
sparc linux binaries are usually less common than the
equivalent Solaris binaries, so the demand for it has been low.

g.