32-bit binaries (e.g. wine) and 64-bit kernel structures

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Mon Oct 24 05:26:12 UTC 2011


"Li-Lun \"Leland\" Wang" <llwang at infor.org> wrote:

> ... the kernel or LD should know a 32-bit binary is being run
> and return proper structures, as is done in Mac OS.
>
> ... Do we have plans to fix this kind of problems in general?
> Although wine port on FreeBSD is only supported for ARCH=i386,
> could there be workarounds?

Does it work if you run the 32-bit app in a 32-bit jail?
If so, it might be a workaround (or, arguably, a solution).


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