From 906b9635db3ad0d5cd0895325336692e95299582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sjg Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:30:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] This doesn't really make sense as-described This reverts commit 7bfdea0dbbbc8988c3f353cd963c1c2582676322 --- docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn b/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn index d38fe5c8..00c48ddb 100644 --- a/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/index.mdwn @@ -26,11 +26,13 @@ Legend: * Add a syscall table which translates Linux system calls to DragonFly ones * Add support for ELF binary detection. -DragonFly/i386 supports the execution of 32 bit Linux binaries, but DragonFly/x86-64 lacks the ability to execute either 32-bit or 64-bit linux binaries. It is desirable to give DragonFly/x86-64 the ability to execute both types of Linux binaries. +DragonFly/i386 supports the execution of 32 bit Linux binaries; it +is only natural to implement the same kind of binary compatibility +for 64-bit systems. -Given Linux software available in pkgsrc and dports is i386 only at this date (2013-03-06), the 32-bit emulation capability has a higher priority over 64-bit emulation. +Some of the other *BSD systems may already have implemented such a mechanism. -Some of the other *BSDs have already implemented similar mechanisms and could be drawn upon for inspiration. +Given Linux software available in pkgsrc and dports is i386 only at this date (2013-03-06), it would be more practical to avoid working on amd64 linux applications at first. Meta information: -- 2.41.0