On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:43:21AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Does the amd64 port have any interoperability with the x86 port?
> Eg. is it possible to compile up only an amd64 kernel and share
> userland with the x86 machines?  
> 
> I'm starting to get itchy now that a few low-cost boards like the asus
> sk8n and the tyan k8s are starting to show up on the mailorder sites.
> I'm not sure I really want the hassle of compiling up every user
> program another time.

Yes, that should work. I haven't tried a pure x86 userland, so I can't
claim that everything works, there may be some nits in the compat_netbsd32
layer.

One thing that does not work, unfortunately, is native pthreads.
The SA code copies structures to and from userland, and these structures
contain addresses, which have a different size. This needs to be fixed.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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