On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:26:04PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > Renee wrote: > >I am in the process of moving. I am a former VMS developer. I wrote to ask > >what languages you are using. If it's C, VMS developers HATED C. > >I would like to help/join the effort but I would recommend Bliss. > > I think that we have to build a kernel (or a set of servers in L4 > paradigm) that is portable. I'm not sure that bliss is good enough to > reach this goal. I'm not sure there is somewhere a open sourced bliss > compiler that is stable and usable. And I'm not sure that there are > bliss developers enough to start this project with bliss.
First, I state that I do not know L4, so I can't judge it. (And don't have the time for it.) But how easy/difficult will it be to rewrite/extend to our purposes? How about CPU specific features given in VAX/AXP architecture reference manual, how is it possible to implement those? (For my 0.3, I had modified the kernel's interrupt entry point a bit.) For instance, how will AST, IPL etc be handled with L4? How to fit in the QIO and VMS device driver system with L4? And the other hardware/system-specific issues? -- -Roar Thronæs _______________________________________________ FreeVMS mailing list [email protected] https://www.systella.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freevms
