On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Roland McGrath wrote: > There has been almost no hacking done on gnumach since I did oskit-mach. > Your porting efforts are the first time lately anyone has been serious > about microkernel hacking.
That's good news (I think :-P). I checked the 2000-05-05 snapshot of OSKit into our CVS repository for further review. I know Ron and I agree that we want to work on gnumach at this stage, but I may also work on adapting our work to OSKit at the same time. I've already started fixing up the ELF stuff in OSKit for Elf64... > That's just historical cruft. Another reason to use oskit instead! ;=) Hehehe...it was just hard to believe for me :-P Then again, I've been using Alphas since BLADE was around, so I've lived in a 64-bit world for awhile and always have that eye for portability and ease. > oskit runs on two platforms now (i386 and strongarm), and others outside > the Utah group are working on other ports. That says something. True. In reality, looking through OSKit sources (especially the ARM support) has helped me get a perspective on things a bit better. Gnumach can get hard to relate to sometimes since there isn't really any support for other architectures to base work on. > I too am disappointed. I haven't gotten any helpful response from the Flux > group either (and I used to work there). I think the folks are just too > busy with others things (they are working on oskit, just not on ports). Probably, and it's understandable. I know I don't mind supporting my old projects, but it's not on the top of my priority list to do so. > Have you posted to the oskit-users list looking for interested people? I need to subscribe and I'll check into it. > I hope you will concentrate first on the core chip support, i.e. pmap et > al. That is the stuff that still needs to be specifically done for gnumach > on Alpha even if you can get drivers and such from oskit. Well, I needed the headers fixed up or else we'd be dealing with 64-bit issues immediately. I intend on starting real work tonight or Thursday (unless we get a hurricane this week...living in Miami sucks). C
