Subject: Re: 4.3-reno binaries on NetBSD
To: Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian@cosmic.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/29/2000 10:55:06
It worked very well ~6 years ago, but I haven't tried it for ages now so
something may be broken. 
Note that if COMPAT_VAX1K is defined, you will always be able to run
4.3-reno binaries. There is no special compile-time option for it.

-- Ragge

> Has anyone managed to run 4.3-reno binaries on NetBSD/vax recently?
> When I try to do do with the GENERIC 1.4.3 kernel (which has COMPAT_43
> and COMPAT_VAX1K defined, I get "Exec format error. Wrong Architecture."
> 
> Running 'file' on one of those binaries strangely gives me
> 	old sun-2 demand paged executable
> 
> Any clues?  The config file implies that it should be possible to run
> Reno binaries on NetBSD/vax.
> 
> --Mirian
>