Re: amd64 and COMPAT_FREEBSD ?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:04:49PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:57:54PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > In article <20090129130236.GA3117%antioche.eu.org@localhost>,
> > Manuel Bouyer  <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >Hi
> > >what's the status of COMPAT_FREEBSD on amd64 ? I'd like to run the
> > >FreeBSD icp-vortex management tool (the linux binary isn't compatible
> > >with our kernel interface). To make it worse this tool is 32bits ...
> > 
> > Non functional. I suspect that you would need a freebsd32 like we have
> > linux32.
> 
> Also, our FreeBSD emulation is *really* old.  It was written for
> FreeBSD 2 and I don't know if it was even updated for FreeBSD 4.  It is
> quite unlikely that binaries for any currently supported version of
> FreeBSD will work.

The icp tools are old too; they're for FreeBSD 4 and there may be a
version for FreeBSD 2. Unfortunably we don't have the technical details
to hook icp(4) to bio(4) so without these tools, these controllers are
not very usefull for any serious work :(

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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