x86_64 linuxulator patches

[Chagin Dmitry]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> If emulating both ia32 and x86_64 simultaneously is technically feasible
> >> (and I believe it is), then both should be available. i386->amd64 is
> >> not the replacement step, this is an backward-compatible upgrade.
> >
> > I think that it not difficulty. two modules and two /compat/linux[SFX]
> > but it is necesary to think well,
> > and the opinion of ports maintainers is interesting.
> >
> 
>  I'm working towards releasing a port for running Oracle XE w/ Linux
> (x86) binaries on FreeBSD. Oracle XE has been working fine for me on
> FreeBSD for quite a long time now and I'm pretty sure that the
> Enterprise version does too. For the Enterprise releases there are
> also (Linux) x86-64 binaries and for an Oracle DB I believe it would
> make a difference.


Enterprise version (buffer cache part) depends on shm_(open|unlink)
behaviour, which differ in glibc-2.7 and fbsd.
I now investigate sysvshm and it...

> 
>  Also it's not unusual for a system to run multiple version (even
> 32bit/64bit) Oracle instances. So this would be a benefit.
> 

ok
thnx!

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chd