From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750791AbWCCRiv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:38:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751501AbWCCRiv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:38:51 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:55437 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbWCCRiu (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:38:50 -0500 Message-ID: <44087F28.6030506@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:38:48 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcos Luiggi Lemos Sartori CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Software Emulation Layer References: <44087BF5.90003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44087BF5.90003@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcos Luiggi Lemos Sartori wrote: > I have an Idea that could be good to you propuse to the Developers. > > I think that all unixs most have a universal binarie (kind you compile > Bash on a BSD and you can run on Linux, Solaris... Without recompile > it), so my Idea is create a plugable automatic kernel Level emulation > for aliens binaries, and root threes for the aliens systems libraries > (such Libc). Just define your own ABI. Linux and *BSD already support foreign ABIs. Jeff