Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:20:46 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: iBCS with 2.4? |
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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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