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Reverse Engineering IRIX Multithreading For NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the going-thattaway dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Onlamp.com publishes the sixth paper of Emmanuel Dreyfus's series on NetBSD's IRIX binary compatibility implementation. This time, this is about reverse engineering IRIX multithreading and the odd virtual memory features involved with it. It's an adventure at kernel and userland boundaries, with a debugger as the sole weapon. A must read!"

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  1. Re:IRIX? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    ok, so cpeterso hasn't been paying attention for the past couple years. Windows is no more at SGI, and Linux is only on Itanium Origins / Altix at the moment, and no indication (at the moment) that it's going anywhere else. Non-hobbyist (except perhaps the most quirky commercial-type) IRIX users will not be transitioning to NetBSD until NetBSD has the graphics and scaleability capabilities that they require.