On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:36:30 -0600 
 Bob Myers <rjmyers@rtis.ray.com> wrote:

 > I'm a "lurker" here and saw this message traffic about Linux on Sparc
 > platforms.  Just wanted to be sure that you all knew that a port is already
 > "in progress", just like netBSD and the others.

Yes, we all knew.  Thankfully we're all happily running NetBSD on our
SPARCs :-)

Note the question was about making NetBSD's Linux emulation work on the
SPARC, so that we could run Linux/sparc executables.

Unfortunately, this is somewhat of a pain, since, in their infinite wisdom,
the Linux people decided that having different system call numbers, different
errno values, different termios structures, etc. was the right way to make
their operating system portable.

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