linux kernel thoughts

2002-06-03 Thread William Knop
I'm sure people have asked questions about integrating wine into the linux kernel. Probably got flamed by everybody, yeah? But that's not what I'm posting about. Not directly, anyway. =) I'm thinking of writing a kernel patch for PE executable support. Is there any reason why wine libraries

Re: linux kernel thoughts

2002-06-03 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:58:35AM -0400, William Knop wrote: I'm sure people have asked questions about integrating wine into the linux kernel. Probably got flamed by everybody, yeah? But that's not what I'm Not realy. A wine kernel patch already exists, see

Re: linux kernel thoughts

2002-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
It's been a while since I looked at the compilation options of the kernel, but there used to be specific support for java applets in the kernel (running a userland jvm, mind you). That was later deprecated by a MISC handler, that (I guess) could be configured to run java, and probably also

Re: linux kernel thoughts

2002-06-03 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:43:11PM +0200, Michael Stefaniuc wrote: And Linus dosn't oppose the idea of having a wine/windows support in the kernel: http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Sep/1504.html . Umm, to be more precise: Linus wasn't opposed to someting like that at the time of

Re: linux kernel thoughts

2002-06-03 Thread William Knop
Hmm... I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the info. Perhaps I'll make a help file so people can set their boxes up easily this way. Thanks, Will From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: William Knop [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux kernel thoughts Date: Mon, 03

Re: linux kernel thoughts

2002-06-03 Thread Marco Pietrobono
Il lun, 2002-06-03 alle 17:49, Shachar Shemesh ha scritto: It's been a while since I looked at the compilation options of the kernel, but there used to be specific support for java applets in the kernel (running a userland jvm, mind you). That was later deprecated by a MISC handler, that