Re: Linuxolator on AMD64 Guidance

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:06:16PM +0100, Alexander
Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting "Thomas M. Hermann"
<tmh.publicgmail.com> (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:06:01
-0500):
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Is the goal of current linuxolator development to
update support to
> > 2.6.16 to be 64bit on amd64 or just update to
2.6.16 and run 32bit apps
> > on amd64 as is done now? I've subscribed to
freebsd-emulation &
> 
> The goal is to get 2.6.16 running. There's no active
development for
> 64bit support on amd64 (at least I'm not aware of
one).
 
netbsd supports linuxamd64 emulation and I think I could do the
port in 
a few weeks. if I get decent access to amd64 machine and
enough time/money 

but seriously... linux64 emulation is a MUST and I think the
port of netbsd
code should not be THAT hard....

opinions?
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Divacky Roman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:06:16PM +0100, Alexander
Leidinger wrote:
>   
>> Quoting "Thomas M. Hermann"
<tmh.publicgmail.com> (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:06:01
-0500):
>>
>>     
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Is the goal of current linuxolator development
to update support to
>>> 2.6.16 to be 64bit on amd64 or just update to
2.6.16 and run 32bit apps
>>> on amd64 as is done now? I've subscribed to
freebsd-emulation &
>>>       
>> The goal is to get 2.6.16 running. There's no
active development for
>> 64bit support on amd64 (at least I'm not aware of
one).
>>     
>  
> netbsd supports linuxamd64 emulation and I think
I could do the port in 
> a few weeks. if I get decent access to amd64 machine
and enough time/money 
>
> but seriously... linux64 emulation is a MUST and I
think the port of netbsd
> code should not be THAT hard....
>
> opinions?
>   
Since there is not active development of 64bit support on
amd64, then I
advocate waiting until the 2.6.16 update is complete to
start 64bit
development. In the short term, being able to run 32bit apps
reliably is
better than being able run 64bit and 32bit apps unreliably.
Besides,
this motivates me to come to some arrangement with the
vendor to get a
native version, which is better than using the linux ABI
anyway.

Thanks,

Tom


-- 
=== Thomas M. Hermann ===


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