Re: Pentium emulation

Teunis Peters (teunis@usa.net)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:27:13 -0600 (MDT)


On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, linux kernel account wrote:
>
> > Hmm.. Even better, is there any possibility of making linux support
> > FAT-Elfs? On my NeXT computer I can compile as a 'fat binary' and have the
> > same executible run on M68k, Intel, Sparc, and HP.. On the target
> > computers I can then strip the fat bin to just whats nessassary.. Or the
> > installer can do that... Anyone who maintains a multi platform enviroment
> > can tell you how helpful that is.. Wouldn't it be nice to have in linux..
>
> User space.

more specifically, ld.so

SOMETHING has to recognize a FAT binary!
(does the kernel need to worry or does it see 'elf binary' and run ld.so
on it?)
Waitasec... what loader does a FAT binary built by NeXT use?
(as in ELF flag program interpreter)
[I default to /lib/ld-linux.so for my code...]

Ciao!
- Teunis