Ralf Baechle writes:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 09:37:23PM -0700, digital convergence wrote:
>
> > btw, how well is native IRIX binary loading supported? I wish to run a
> > copy of BMRT on my farm of indy's under linux, but it won't let me
> > execute any of the binaries (they're R4000 optimised old style linkage
> > bins)....
>
> Only a limited number of syscalls and other interfaces is supported at
> all and I haven't received any reports about the IRIX compatibility
> stuff in ages. Anybody interested in maintaining this facility?
IRIX 4.* binaries are COFF binaries, not ELF, and have a very
different ABI from IRIX 5.* binaries. The present support is really
for IRIX 5 binaries, which are much closer in interface semantics to
Linux native binaries.
