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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!sun4nl!sun4nl!wins.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: frank@wins.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: decstation 5000/133: linux/MIPS, OpenBSD/pmax or NetBSD/pmax Date: 3 Jul 1997 10:39:58 +0200 Organization: FWINS, University of Amsterdam Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pfogu$mt1$1@mail.wins.uva.nl> References: <867662387.22833@dejanews.com> <33b787ba.0@rainbow.hrz.uni-siegen.de> <5pd48e$e4i$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <33babc1b.0@rainbow.hrz.uni-siegen.de> <5peo4u$s61$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.wins.uva.nl X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 #6 Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6203 jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) writes: >Most of the DECstation userbase is used to Ultrix, which is a BSD >system. The existing free-Unix-on-DEcstation user base is used to >either NetBSD or OpenBSD. The expertise on how to install free-Unix, >on device-drivers, and on machine-specific code is all in the *BSD >camps. I don't know if there's an already-existing set of precompiled >binaries for Linux/MIPS. But if there is, and you want to run them, >you should be able to run them under NetBSD's emulation mode. Actually, while the Linux compat code is largely machine-independent, you do need some machine-specific emulation additions to make it work on another port than the i386. This includes, for example, some signal handling stuff, etc. This hasn't yet been done for the pmax/mips architecture in NetBSD. I've never looked into it, but it should not be much work. Unless the system call numbers are different, which is the case for Linux/alpha.. - Frank