RE: Status of linux-abi (iBCS)

From: -=Brian Truter=- (brian_at_famvid.com)
Date: 03/03/04

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    Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:24:28 -0600
    
    

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fedora-list-admin@redhat.com
    > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Vernon A. Fort
    > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:56 AM
    > To: fedora-list@redhat.com
    > Subject: Status of linux-abi (iBCS)
    >
    >
    > I've been digging around in a vain attempt to find the current status of
    > the iBCS2 (linux-abi). From what I've discovered, it apprears to be no
    > longer maintained and I have not seen this patch included with
    > redhat-kernels for quite sometime.
    >
    > I need to migrate an SCO server to linux for about 9 months until the
    > new release of the application is available. The hardware is just about
    > dead and we just need to get a stable platform for a short period of time.
    >
    > Has anyone gotten the linux-abi patches to work under the fedora
    > kernels. Is there another maintainer other than linux-abi - the last
    > patch I see is for 2.4.21 released July of 2003 or have I missed
    > something.
    >
    > Please no flames - I'm not trying to suggest that fedora includes
    > support iBCS, just attempting to make an existing SCO server/application
    > work using fedora until the vendor releases an linux version. I really
    > do not want to fall back to redhat 6.2 which is the last version I used
    > to migrate SCO->Linux.
    >
    > Any suggestions?
    >
    > Andy
    >
    >

    Go here: http://linux-abi.sourceforge.net

    There are patches for kernels up to version 2.4.21 so far. The documentation
    on this site is excellent also.
    I was able to do the same thing you are attempting using RedHat 9.

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