Status of linux-abi (iBCS)

-=Brian Truter=- brian at famvid.com
Wed Mar 3 19:24:28 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Vernon A. Fort
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:56 AM
> To: fedora-list at 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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