Re: Intent to port to ia64

[Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:10:26PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously David N. Welton wrote:
> > ARM starts at a pretty wierd number too, IIRC.
> 
> Heh, indeed:
> 
> #define __NR_SYSCALL_BASE       0x900000

so the kernel in ia64 only supports the ia64 syscalls not the ia32... and if
i want to run a ia32 bin on ia64 i need a ia32 libc which in turn would use
the ia32 syscalls which are not present on the ia64.

so the question is, will there be a syscall emulator or a compat libc6, does
anybody know?

Greetings
Bernd