Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Rob Landley
2005-12-06T06:29:04Z

On Monday 05 December 2005 11:29, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 12:18:34 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >Linux in a binary world
> >
> > You forgot the effect of binary-only on non-x86 arches...
>
> Um, let's write an binary emulator for those archs. It did work for
> Alphas executing i386 code, so it'd work for PPC, too :-)

Fabrice Bellard beat you to it, QEMU, and yes it's GPL.

Trying to bolt it to the kernel would deeply suck.

Rob
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