From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
ginu samuel <samuel.ginu2010@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Runnig solaris binary(32 bit) on linux(64 bit)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:39:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c7026171d3ab5d530784308a5ce71d32e6760c7.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2011213-8c8b-95c0-9565-47eaf7d33688@linaro.org>
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On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 09:29 -1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 2/16/23 09:02, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > It wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to extend qemu-user to support the
> > similar personality variations for SCO/Solaris/etc. using that as a
> > guide.
>
> Not beyond wit but perhaps beyond patience.
>
> It would certainly be possible to emulate the "easy middle" of one POSIX guest on a
> different POSIX host. But the dusty corners are going to get in the way, where we
> currently rely on guest and host having identical semantics, and pass the system call
> through to the host.
>
> It's a big job.
True, but the existing iBCS / linux-abi kernel patches should highlight
a lot of those dusty corners.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-16 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-16 9:00 Runnig solaris binary(32 bit) on linux(64 bit) ginu samuel
2023-02-16 14:36 ` Peter Maydell
2023-02-16 19:02 ` David Woodhouse
2023-02-16 19:29 ` Richard Henderson
2023-02-16 19:39 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2023-02-17 15:31 ` Peter Maydell
2023-02-17 16:04 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-18 2:40 ` ginu samuel
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