Thanks Wei - your project proposal looks great. Wei Shen wrote: > 1. Purpose - extending the lx brand to support 64-bit Linux applications. > > 2. Short name - lx64 > > 3. Sponsoring community groups - BrandZ. > > 4. Participants - Wei Shen <cquark at gmail.com>. > > 5. Brief description - Support for the creation of Linux Zones (lx > brand) on Solaris was introduced in build 49 of Nevada. A lx zone > hosts and runs unmodified Linux applications, running on top of a thin > system call translation layer. This initial integration only supports > 32-bit Linux applications. This project proposed to extend the > existing Linux zone functionality to add support for 64-bit Linux > applications and 64-bit Linux distributions. > > 6. Related projects - none. > > 7. Additional information - lx64 is started from enabling the lx brand > to execute 64-bit elf programs and translate 64-bit Linux system > calls. Currently, it can already run some simple 64-bit Linux > programs, but still lacks the correct emulation of many Linux system > calls. Signals and trace are not supported yet, and other lx features > like debugging, network, sound, nfs, etc. have not been considersed. > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
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