> in the pre-Montecito IPF CPUs. AFAIK, the exact same binary is even > used both for the Windows and Linux versions of IA32EL.
That's how it was explained to me too. Looking at the binary blob part of the ia32-el package: $ file /usr/lib/ia32el/ia32exec.bin /usr/lib/ia32el/ia32exec.bin: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows it seems that the implementation matches the slideware :-) The rest of the ia32-el package is open source ... which should provide enough documentation on how the OS-level code interfaces to the instruction execution engine to allow it to be replaced. -Tony
