Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932432AbVLFG3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:29:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932438AbVLFG3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:29:04 -0500 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:48568 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932432AbVLFG3B (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:29:01 -0500 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:28:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4394766A.8060803@pobox.com> <20051205172915.GK13985@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20051205172915.GK13985@lug-owl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512060028.55052.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 23 On Monday 05 December 2005 11:29, 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 :-) Fabrice Bellard beat you to it, QEMU, and yes it's GPL. Trying to bolt it to the kernel would deeply suck. Rob -- Steve Ballmer: Innovation! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. - 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/