Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Mar 2019 08:04:01 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:39 PM, Maxime Villard <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
>> There's a funny historical reason for this -- Linux on Alpha =
originally
>> used OSF/1 syscall numbering and args for its own native syscalls.
>> No, our implementation need not actually reflect that -- but it's an
>> interesting historical detail perhaps we should write down somewhere.
>=20
> Does that mean we don't need these syscalls?

We do, if we want Linux emulation to work.  I'll review your patch in a =
just a moment.

-- thorpej