On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:27:18AM +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >>> "Dr. Unk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13-Jun-00 7:15:01 AM >>>
>
> Dr Unk said:
> >Supposedly HURD will work on any architecture supported
> >by the microkernel.
>
>
> Can someone (Thomas, Marcus, Jeff, etc...) confirm that this is still
> true?
>
> I am wanting to setup some work getting an ARM version going
> (probably wait for OsKit)
Wait for OsKit to be ported to ARM? Or waiting for oskit-mach? If you can
help oskit to be ported to arm, you would certainly work towards Hurd
running on arm. oskit-mach is reported to run already on i386.
> but it seems that there might be a lot of
> code outside the kernel that it architecture dependant.
Well, there are the usual oddities in application software (some i386
assembler optimization, X, 64bit-uncleanlyness).
The Hurd itself is written in C, no references to the underlying
hardware I know of. There might be some alignement problems on 64bit hardware.
Thanks,
Marcus
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