Linux emulation status

Adriaan de Groot adridg at cs.kun.nl
Thu Dec 11 07:58:39 PST 2003


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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.

Just to get this straight: does that mean that "we" (that's you, David,
along with Peter) have chosen to do linux i386 32-bit ABI emulation first
and to wait-and-see for the amd64 (x86_64 in linuxland) ABI emulation? Is
there any hope of it being there "soon"?


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