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From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux/Elf Emulation
Date: 16 Oct 1996 04:25:01 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
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Message-ID: <542gmd$o2r@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <32647535.167EB0E7@mybutt.com>
X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.102 (bkogawa)

The God Of Life <kane@mybutt.com> writes:

>Recent projects have brought me to attempt to implement Linux
>emulation on to my server. The primary reason for this is to run XQuake. 
>I followed all available literature and manuals on the subject and
>installed the library port as well as recompiled the kernel for "options
>COMPAT_LINUX" and with no avail. Here is some required info. 

[...]
>> xquake
>/home/kane/xquake: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.

>  If you have any info available on my problem please respond. Am I
>missing ELF compatibility. Is it because of these lines in my kernal
>precompile config?
>  machine         "i386"
>  cpu             "I586_CPU" 
>or am I just not going to be able to run it. Knowing FreeBSD there
>should be a way.

>Thanx

As far as I know, 2.1.5 does not have ELF support by default, and I'm not
sure that it would be easy to add it.

2.2-CURRENT is supposed to have sufficient support to run Quake for Linux.
I'm not running it, so I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but the reports
are good (some ISPs are using the Quake server for Linux under FreeBSD).

--
bryan k. ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>  <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>