Linux emulation status

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Peter wrote (a while back):
> 
> 	I've been thinking about this for the last day or so.  We also need to
> 	be able to run 32 bit linux binaries, probably more urgently than 64 bit
> 	linux binaries.  The thought of having two linux emulators in the kernel
> 	gave me a headache.
> 
> So that's a bit of a pain. The linux_base-8 port certainly hasn't been updated 
> for amd64 (it claims to be i386 specific). And as long as there are still no 
> loadable kernel modules for amd64, kldload linux isn't an option either.

The Linux we really should base this on is SUSE Linux 9.0.  Fedora c2 if
we really have to.  There really aren't many programs that are AMD64
Linux that utilize the extra functionality of 64-bit'ness.  So I think
we've some breathing room here until the need for AMD64 Linux compat
becomes pressing.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)