Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751448AbVLEW7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:59:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751486AbVLEW7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:59:19 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:12701 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbVLEW7S (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:59:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Cc: Jeff Garzik , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051205172915.GK13985@lug-owl.de> References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4394766A.8060803@pobox.com> <20051205172915.GK13985@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:52:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1133823122.3562.0.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 26 On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:29 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 12:18:34 -0500, Jeff Garzik 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 :-) And a few years later the PPC arch is also dead? SCNR, Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/