Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:26:35 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: iBCS with 2.4? |
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just to add, that if I am wrong, and Linus does want it in the kernel I am willing to spend some time cleaning up the code, updating it for current interfaces and re-testing at least the small parts of it that I wrote myself :)
(I still have UW7.x.y partitions somewhere and _now_ they are _so_ much easier to access from Linux and run UW7 binaries directly from there!)
Regards, Tigran
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, David Ford wrote: > > > what's needed/where is iBCS for kernel 2.4? > > > > Hi, > > The ABI (iBCS is just an Intel-specific standard so the old name iBCS was > a misnomer while ABI is both platform and OS-independent) patch was > maintained during 2.3.x development series jointly by David Woodhouse, > myself and others at least until 2.3.99-preX. Then I left SCO and SCO > collapsed (more or less) and thus was no longer considered as a strong > player in OS market so I don't believe it is worth expending much effort > to emulate their OSes. I hope the same fate awaits Sun together with their > Solaris product (and any other commercial OS vendors, Microsoft will go > next) so I doubt it is worth emulating Solaris either -- there are more > exciting projects for the Linux kernel. So I personally am no longer > interested in ABI. I suspect the unimportance of non-Linux (legacy) > systems is what made Linus decide to not include it in the official > kernel, but I cc'd all people mentioned here to correct me if I am wrong. > > Anyway, the latest version of the patch I had you can download from: > > http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/abi-bcp-2.3.99.patch.bz2 > > but ask Christoph Hellwig (of Caldera who bought SCO, I heard?) he may > have a more recent copy. > > Regards, > Tigran > > >
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