On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:24:17AM -0500, Paul Raulerson wrote: > Unless of course, they do a lot of bit manipulation, in which case that rotten Intel >Arch. is inverted and out of order... > -Paul
There is a lot of bitmanipulating code in the common code of linux (look at select system-call) which runs without modifications on architectures with different byte-order and different word size. -Ihno > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:11 PM > Subject: Re: Intel Architecture Emulated with Linux/390? > > > > > As I am investigating vendor support for Linux/390, I have run into a > > > question I cannot answer. Vendors want to know if Linux/390 > > > emulates Intel > > > architecture. > > > > No, it does not. > > > > > Apparently, when programming in C, they have to > > > write the > > > application to the specific architecture and that it will not work on > > > non-Intel based systems. > > > > If you're getting crap like this from your vendors, you need new vendors. > > > > Your vendors will have to recompile their applications for the appropriate > > processor architecture, but if they're too clueless to be able to understand > > this, I'd be pretty wary of them in the first place. > > > > -- db > > -- Ihno Krumreich [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 +49-911-74053-439 90429 N|rnberg http://www.suse.de
