> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Musings on Darwin ... > > > I recall waay back on Apr 05 when Brent Fulgham wrote: > > > Darwin is now purportedly available for i386 (or rather, it compiles > > under i386 but may not yet quite work). > [...] > > I was having similar thoughts myself. The important thing is > that Darwin is a Mach-based microkernel, much like Hurd. I wonder > if the two sets of developers couldn't cooperate on a number of > things. It would be yet another non-Linux port. But it is also > fairly interesting, because there is the possibility of fat binary > packages (i.e., it ALL goes in -all). > Well, the Hurd is a multi-server, while BSD/Darwin is a single-server. So there are some rather large differences in the overall architecture. Still, there should be *some* crossover.
> Does anyone know anything else about the availability of an > i386 version? No, but we seem to have our own built-in expert (who is sneakily not answering my e-mail to him today) :-) Voila -- from Fred Sachez himself: > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilfredo Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:28 PM > To: Brent Fulgham > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: Debian Darwin > > | I'm just hoisting a flag here, but since Darwin is already > | configured using Debian tools we might be interested in a > | Debian-Darwin port if we can fire it up under Intel at some > | point (the usual poor developer's workstation). > > I don't know what's involved. Klee's a Debian guy, and he wrote > the tools for Darwin. > > | Do you know if it's possible to cross-compile Darwin from an Intel > | Linux, or for that matter an Intel BSD?� Where could I find > | info about what pieces are missing, etc.? > > It would be a lot easier, I think to cross build from PowerPC to > Intel during the bringup. I don't know how hard it would be to > cross-build from Linux or BSD, but the getting the complier tool > chain to work would be a challenge, I think. > > -Fred > >
