Yest, porting EMC2 to the s/390 or z/990 consists of two parts. You have to separate the ordinary linux part and the realtime part. The realtime and I/O part may require rewriting due to the fact that for I/O you need to use a specific I/O card, good news is that these cards are highly intelligent by themselves so they could perform a variety of tasks.
I understand that you meant that as a joke, but these "big iron" computers are good for what they are good for. For terminal access where you can perform a infrequent high performance computation requiring much resources, such as is the kernel compilation. Headers and makefiles specify what platform is the EMC and kernel source to be compiled to, so you can compile what you want for any platform you want as long as you tell the compiler about it. (I know you know this, just for the other googlers) Remember, mainframes were were since the very beginning as fully virtualised systems, so all realtime timing and such is naturally done with specialised boards. On 11/9/07, Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario. wrote: > > On the bottom of the link http://www.slack390.org/about.html > > is The team supporting the IBM Linux Community Development System , > > which will give free account to a 16-way 32GB machine to anyone > > developing linux/390 :D > > > > Okay, ask the slax/390 people if there is any option to try to compile > > the EMC kernel too. If not they may be able to tell you which > > university will be happy to provide you with such a space. > Hey, can we port EMC2 to the S390? Do they have a parallel > port? How about RTAI? > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
