raspberry Pi

[Brian K. White]

Just for the record, when I mentioned FreeBSD he had said *nothing* 
about running filepro on the Pi! The *only* purpose for mentioning 
FreeBSD was that it's console terminal is almost the same as a SCO OSR5 
scoansi console terminal, because he *said* he just wanted the Pi to be 
a dumb terminal to access SCO boxes!

You will also have the same problem with the ARM cpu regardless if you 
are running linux or freebsd or anything else though.

You could try running filepro in qemu. qemu has a mode of operating 
where instead of running an entire OS within the emulator, you just run 
a single application. On linux at least, I think people have run x86 
binaries on arm.

-- 
bkw



On 5/7/2013 3:34 PM, Doug Luurs wrote:
> Henry .. I've got a pi too, and Ken is correct.  The pi runs a ARM processor which has a RISC type instruction set.
> The x86 is completely different, so running any x86 code "As-is" would not be possible.  So even if you are running
> a FreeBSD O/S, it's been compiled to use that RISC instruction set.  Ken / fpTech would need to completely recompile
> fP with the ARM instruction set, and even then, the 512k memory limit on a pi would make running fP painful if at
> all possible.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+doug.luurs=gmail.com at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+doug.luurs=gmail.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 2:42 PM
> To: Henry Arredondo
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: raspberry Pi
>
> On 5/7/2013 1:31 PM, Henry Arredondo wrote:
> [...]
>>> I installed freeBSD on the pi and works like a charm!, then I
>>> installed filepro 5.7 evaluation for freeBSD and now  I'm getting an
>>> error : Exec format error,  is that a license issue ? or the actual
>>> exec command syntax on this release ?
> [...]
>> I sent you the ssh login information for the raspberry pi , the
>> filepro for FreeBSD is in the /root folder ( 2 tarballs) you can
>> delete / install / do anything you want there is no information
>> whatsoever to worry about, to reimage the R-pi takes 2 minutes if
>> something goes wrong
>
> You didn't answer my questions, but the short answer is that the computer uses an ARM CPU, which as far as I know is not compatible with the x86 line of CPUs.
>
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> Kenneth Brody
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