Subject: Re: port windows CE code onto netbsd
To: None <rearnsha@netbsd.org>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm
Date: 11/03/2004 13:32:52
Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 18:11, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a 3rd party hardware connecting to an X scale hw through a usb port.
>> The hw comes with winCE static libraries in binary form compiled for ARM.
>> [They have src code for the driver to talk to the 3rd party hw which I
>> should be able to port to netbsd.] I want to skip using windows CE and
>> install netbsd instead on the Xscale hardware. But I am not sure if I
>> can somehow(??) run the winCE binaries on netbsd once it has been ported
>> to Xscale.
>>
>> Can someone give me a clue if what Im attempting is feasible and how to
>> go about doing it?
>I'm not aware that it's been done before. You'd probably want something
>akin to 'wine' for ARM. I don't know if anybody is working on such a
>thing.
Doesn't the COMPAT_PECOFF option provide the support to run WinCE
binaries ?
I have no idea whether it will do what you need though.
Robert Swindells