Linux emulation status

[Adriaan de Groot]

Ho Owen,

On Thursday 11 December 2003 05:40, Owen Becker wrote:
> Anyone know what the status of running i386 linux binaries on
> FreeBSD/amd64? More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird
> going?

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.

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