>> >hi list >> hi! >> >hi, i sorry for this late response ok >> >> >are there somebody working on porting system onto i386 architecture ? >> Actually nobody works on this(as I know). By the way it can be useful. >> >yes, it is > >> Well, it's not too late for start this. It will affect the microkernel >> mostly >> and some arch depended part of libs in user space. >> >could you describe the possible difficulties in porting this ? well, it will affect a huge part of microkernel mm and ipc (since in 32bit you cannot see all the address space in kernel mode). I dont think that bootstrap part are difficult (it's a most of simple one), but ipc/mm will make a headache while you will try to port it. Sadly, but truth is a fact that you need to know internals good to port it, while microkernel was develop many stuff was assigned to 64bit and in this case you need to know some specific in 32bit kernels. > >> I cannot do this now, at this moment I'm working on Jari OS in my spare >> time >> and I think that i386 is additional feature, but not the general one. >> >i can take this if somebody will explain me all the internals affected. I can explain ;) mm and ipc will affected and ~50% of code should be written for architecture code. Other stuff such as user-space (arch depended functions, linker scripts and so on), kernel bootstrap is a very simple to port. For now I cannot explain more (I was working on other things in this project). I'm afraid, but you need look for the microkernel source code more detailed (mm/ipc part). So, you may became a pioneer in porting Jari OS to other than amd64 architecture anyway ;) If you pick up this `big deal' - I can help you (I will take 4 hours/week for this). Also, this will interest because it will be the first port of project - it will find a scary places within all the code (kernel, user space libs and services/drivers). > >regards, Thank you for interest.
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