Tim Kientzle wrote: >> "Sidegrading" is supposed to work now in HEAD; with a little hacking, >> you can build an amd64 world and kernel on the i386 world, install the >> kernel, reboot, and install world. AFAIK, the required hacking involves >> copying /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 to /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 ... > > I wonder when we'll have to standardize /libexec/<arch>/ to support > multiple architectures for things like ld-elf.so.1. It used to only > be a concern for those rare people running diskless over multiple > architectures, but the case of i386 binaries on amd64 is a little > more common. > > On the other hand, if ld-elf.so.1 is fairly unique in this > concern, it might be simpler to rename it to: > ld-elf-{i386,amd64,ppc,...}.so.1 Good point, it's silly that i386 binary running on amd64 kernel requires ld-elf32.so.1, while ld-elf.so.1 when running on i386 kernel. It adds unneeded complexity for running i386 jail or chroot on amd64 for example. I wonder if we can do what Tim said - rename dynamic loader to actually include architecture name. I am pretty sure it would allow to remove quite few special cases from the kernel elf/emulation code and possibly from the cross build logic. -MaximReceived on Fri Jan 04 2008 - 20:26:52 UTC
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