X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!

X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!

[digital convergence]

As of last night I have compiled a version of the X VNC server to run
under hardhat-5.1 ....

I have been able to connect VNC viewers (on my PCs, my macs, my palm
pilot, even my amiga!) to the SGIs and use the SGI box to run X
clients...

Although I have it compiled here, the school won't let me put up anon
ftp to host this file... Is there somewhere I can upload the bin
tarball??

I will have a VNC-HOWTO as well as source code posted shortly... I am
in finals and time is scarce....

btw, how well is native IRIX binary loading supported? I wish to run a
copy of BMRT on my farm of indy's under linux, but it won't let me
execute any of the binaries (they're R4000 optimised old style linkage
bins)....

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IRIX binary compatibility (Was: Re: X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!)

[Ralf Baechle]

On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 09:37:23PM -0700, digital convergence wrote:

> btw, how well is native IRIX binary loading supported? I wish to run a
> copy of BMRT on my farm of indy's under linux, but it won't let me
> execute any of the binaries (they're R4000 optimised old style linkage
> bins)....

Only a limited number of syscalls and other interfaces is supported at
all and I haven't received any reports about the IRIX compatibility
stuff in ages.  Anybody interested in maintaining this facility?

  Ralf

Re: IRIX binary compatibility (Was: Re: X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!)

[William J. Earl]

Ralf Baechle writes:
 > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 09:37:23PM -0700, digital convergence wrote:
 > 
 > > btw, how well is native IRIX binary loading supported? I wish to run a
 > > copy of BMRT on my farm of indy's under linux, but it won't let me
 > > execute any of the binaries (they're R4000 optimised old style linkage
 > > bins)....
 > 
 > Only a limited number of syscalls and other interfaces is supported at
 > all and I haven't received any reports about the IRIX compatibility
 > stuff in ages.  Anybody interested in maintaining this facility?

       IRIX 4.* binaries are COFF binaries, not ELF, and have a very
different ABI from IRIX 5.* binaries.  The present support is really
for IRIX 5 binaries, which are much closer in interface semantics to
Linux native binaries.

Re: IRIX binary compatibility (Was: Re: X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!)

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:08:31PM -0700, William J. Earl wrote:

> Ralf Baechle writes:
>  > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 09:37:23PM -0700, digital convergence wrote:
>  > 
>  > > btw, how well is native IRIX binary loading supported? I wish to run a
>  > > copy of BMRT on my farm of indy's under linux, but it won't let me
>  > > execute any of the binaries (they're R4000 optimised old style linkage
>  > > bins)....
>  > 
>  > Only a limited number of syscalls and other interfaces is supported at
>  > all and I haven't received any reports about the IRIX compatibility
>  > stuff in ages.  Anybody interested in maintaining this facility?
> 
>        IRIX 4.* binaries are COFF binaries, not ELF, and have a very
> different ABI from IRIX 5.* binaries.  The present support is really
> for IRIX 5 binaries, which are much closer in interface semantics to
> Linux native binaries.

So far not a single person has asked for binary compatibility with
IRIX < 5.0, so ECOFF support isn't exactly something I'm worried about ...

  Ralf