Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 2004 09:10:21 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: WINE + NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 |
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 06:13:41PM +0900, Mike McCormack wrote: > We are using our own user space loader now, but a kernel space loader is > neither portable or practical.
Huh? binfmts do work on all linux architectures unchanged. What you do on other operating systems is up to you. And btw, netbsd already has binfmt_pecoff, you could certainly make use of that, too.
> it would be > nice if somebody let us know when they're going to make a change that is > going to break Wine, and provide a way for us to workaround that change, > or even better maintain real binary compatability...
_You_ are relying on undocumented assumptions here. Windows has different address space layouts than ELF ABI systems and I think you're much better off having your own pecoff loader for that.
> It seems Linus's kernel does that quite well, but some vendors seem not > to care too much about breaking Wine.
Why should they? You need to fix up the broken assumptions in wine. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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