Re: MiNT and binary emulation subsystem.

[root@thelbane.brisnet.org.au (Dancer)]

> 
> This is an interesting paragraph that I read about NetBSD.
> 
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> NetBSD 1.1 has significantly enhanced the binary emulation subsystem 
> (which includes iBCS2, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4, Solaris and Ultrix
> compatibility) and several kernel subsystems have been generalized
> to support this more readily.  The binary emulation strategy is 
> aimed at making the emulation as accurate as possible.
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>  
>         mint@atari.archive.umich.edu.
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> My question is:  Is it possible to do the same with MiNT?  perhaps we can find out
> how the NetBSD subsystem works and implement it in MiNTOS so that MiNT can use the 
> binaries from NetBSD.  So emulations of interest to me would be AmigaDOS,
> MacOS, and OpenSTep.
> 

Actually, I've been offered (free and clear, by a workmate) his sources to
an ELF-format executable loader. He wonders if MiNT might benefit from it.
It's apparently fairly light on for size, but I do worry about extra
memory pressures from creeping featurism. Comments?

D