Re: [PATCH] solaris/sparc emul improvements against 2.2.11

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:11:43 +0100

rappleye@nexus.hwi.buffalo.edu said:
> Enclosed is a patch against kernel 2.2.11 that offers some
> improvements to the solaris emulation. This patch was tested on a Sun
> Ultra 5 workstation.

Is there a reason why Solaris emulation exists in three different places:

Solaris/sparc64: Linus' kernel tree
Solaris/sparc32: iBCS
Solaris/x86: My development iBCS tree

Now the final one is fair enough - I haven't really released it yet, but why
are sparc32 and sparc64 kept separate?

Is there a reason for the sparc64 version being integrated into the kernel but
not sparc32? Would it be better to remove the sparc64 version and merge it
instead with the iBCS code, to prevent duplication of effort?

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