From: Anders Dahlqvist <dahlqvist@sundsvall.mail.telia.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:01:47 +0100 Message-Id: <00120520013700.01385@gnu> Subject: OT: iBCS.o What is the purpose of the kernel module iBCS.o, and what option excludes/includes compilation of this module? -- Anders Dahlqvist ------------------ "Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none." -- Shakespeare ___ /\_ \ __ \//\ \ /\_\ ___ __ __ __ _ \ \ \ \/\ \ /' _ `\/\ \/\ \/\ \/'\ \_\ \_\ \ \/\ \/\ \ \ \_\ \/> </ /\____\\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \____//\_/\_\ \/____/ \/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/ \//\/_/
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:24:37 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012052219000.32423-100000@wiles.suse.de> Subject: Re: [SLE] OT: iBCS.o Hi, On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Anders Dahlqvist wrote:
What is the purpose of the kernel module iBCS.o, and what option excludes/includes compilation of this module?
Apart from that it's broken on 7.0, iBCS is used to run non-Linux binaries (e.g. SCO Unix) on Linux. IIRC, iBCS means "Intel binary compatibility standard". This was nice in former times - people were actually running Oracle (or was it Informix?) for SCO on Linux way before there was a Linux port. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To climb a ladder, you begin with the bottom rung.
From: juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de Message-ID: <3A2EA18F.FCFAFFFB@ruhr-west.de> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:29:03 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] OT: iBCS.o Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Anders Dahlqvist wrote:
What is the purpose of the kernel module iBCS.o, and what option excludes/includes compilation of this module?
Apart from that it's broken on 7.0, iBCS is used to run non-Linux binaries (e.g. SCO Unix) on Linux. IIRC, iBCS means "Intel binary compatibility standard". This was nice in former times - people were actually running Oracle (or was it Informix?) for SCO on Linux way before there was a Linux port.
Onthe more funny side: There is now a linux binary emulator to run linux binarys on SCO or something... How times change. ;-) Juergen
Bye, LenZ
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