linux kernel thoughts

[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 should not be used in a similar manner as 
standard linux libraries? Granted wine is more than just it's libraries. 
Anyway, good idea, bad idea?

And please keep the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comments to yourself. 
No progress is made with that mentality.

Will

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[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
> ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/people/dwh . 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 .

bye
	michael
> posting about. Not directly, anyway. =)
>
> I'm thinking of writing a kernel patch for PE executable support. Is there 
> any reason why wine libraries should not be used in a similar manner as 
> standard linux libraries? Granted wine is more than just it's libraries. 
> Anyway, good idea, bad idea?
>
> And please keep the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comments to yourself. 
> No progress is made with that mentality.

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[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 the writing. He has been known to change his
mind from time to time.

 ciao
        Jörg

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[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 PE.

The idea is that trying to execve a PE file, will find the userland wine 
program and run it. This would make your effort needless.

            Shachar


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 posting about. Not directly, anyway. =)
>
> I'm thinking of writing a kernel patch for PE executable support. Is 
> there any reason why wine libraries should not be used in a similar 
> manner as standard linux libraries? Granted wine is more than just 
> it's libraries. Anyway, good idea, bad idea?
>
> And please keep the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comments to 
> yourself. No progress is made with that mentality.
>
> Will
>
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[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 (I guess) could be configured to run java, and 
> probably also PE.
>
> The idea is that trying to execve a PE file, will find the userland wine 
> program and run it. This would make your effort needless.

FWIW, it seems that both RedHat and Mandrake come with a script that
does the correct setup at boot.

  All it does is:

/sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc &>/dev/null

echo ':windows:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' \
                  >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

echo ':windowsPE:M::PE::/usr/local/bin/wine:' \
                  >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

  bye,

/pietrobo



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