From: Adam Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hurd on my i486 won't boot Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:38:28 +0000
> Yes, I'm interested; I'd like to see Hurd running on the 486. (And for those > of you that are interested, Hurd won't boot under VMWare, due to VMWare's > dodgy MMU emulation.) What exactly needs to be done? Presumably I can > cross-compile gnumach under Linux without too much bother; I'd hope that > there wouldn't be too much work involved in porting the FPU emulation over. > I've had no experience of i386 assembler yet, and I'd assume that I'd need > to know some for this. But I'm willing to give it a go, if you can give me > some pointers. For x86 information, try to see http://www.x86.org/. You need to know the general design of x86 processors and IRQ handling. I recommend that you will read Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 1-3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /
