From: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
Cc: digital convergence <digital_convergence@yahoo.com>,
linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr,
linux-mips@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: IRIX binary compatibility (Was: Re: X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:08:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906300008.RAA09229@fir.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990614123809.C14977@uni-koblenz.de>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-30 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-14 4:37 X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!! digital convergence
1999-06-14 10:38 ` IRIX binary compatibility (Was: Re: X VNC server compiled on Hardhat!!) Ralf Baechle
1999-06-30 0:08 ` William J. Earl [this message]
1999-07-05 12:28 ` Ralf Baechle
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