From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA28889 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:03:28 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:04:12 -0500 To: "FINK,MARTIN HP-FtCollins,ex1\"" Cc: "MEYER,ALAN C. HP-FtCollins,ex1\"" , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP-UX application support? Message-ID: <20000228180412.A9944@thepuffingroup.com> References: <56D553C0B61BD311AD2300A0C9F485C202E9DAB3@xfc02.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <56D553C0B61BD311AD2300A0C9F485C202E9DAB3@xfc02.fc.hp.com>; from FINK,MARTIN HP-FtCollins,ex1" on Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:47:45PM -0800 List-ID: On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:47:45PM -0800, FINK,MARTIN HP-FtCollins,ex1" wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:14:17PM -0700, MEYER,ALAN C. > > HP-FtCollins,ex1" wrote: > > > I have heard several descriptions of what will be supported > > for HP-UX > > > applications on 64-bit PA/Linux. > > > > > > Can someone plz clarify what will be supported: > > > * 64-bit/ELF HP-UX applications > > > * 32-bit/SOM HP-UX applications > > > > We intend to support both of the above; in addition we also intend to > > support 32 bit ELF Linux applications and, eventually, 64 bit > > ELF Linux > > applications. In case anyone didn't realise it, the current > > executables > > I assume you're referring to 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Linux apps > recompiled for PA/Linux? I'm referring to applications which are written to the Linux APIs compiled for either 32 or 64 bit PARISC/Linux/ELF. I'm reluctant to describe them as `Intel Linux apps', since they probably run on many other CPU / OS combinations. GNOME would be a great example here since it can be built for many different platforms (including HP/UX, I believe), but most of its users are probably on the IA32 + Linux platform. There should be no substantial differences between the user API between Linux running on different CPUs. Pedantry aside, the answer to the question you asked is, `Yes' :-)