Linux emulation on FreeBSD AMD64

[Ivan Voras]

Valery V.Chikalov wrote:
> Hi, list.

> Now being inspired the great performance improvements on multiprocessors
> configurations I am trying to switch to FreeBSD 7.0 version, moreover on
> AMD64 architecture. Must I expect some regression in support old Linux
> application here? Are some theoretical obstacles exists that linux
> application which successfully worked on FreeBSD from 5.0 up to 6.2
> can not be running on 7.0 AMD64?

AFAIK Linux emulation on AMD64 works only for 32-bit code, so you have
practically two emulation layers: linux-freebsd and 32-64. There's all
kinds of things that might go wrong.

This is a "generic" answer, I don't really know the exact answer to your
question.


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