Ahhh, new architectures are nice to have. Anyone have an old mainframe gathering dust under your desk we can try this on? ----- Forwarded message from Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 17:21:14 -0500 Subject: Patches for new architecture, send where? Hi all, hi Linus, I've got patches to the Linux kernel that introduce a new architecture. What do I do to get them merged into the main development tree ? Here's the deal: The patches are for the IBM ESA/390 mainframe family; I've mentioned this on this list in the past. (There's a modest mailing list elsewhere that discusses this work but traffic is light; few people have access to a mainframe). The current patches are located at http://linas.org/linux/i370/ Although they are against linux-2.2.1 they should in fact apply more or less cleanly against any build, as 99% of the patch just creates new directories arch/i370 and include/asm-i370. If you really want patches against 2.3.x, I suppose I can do that, but for all practical purposes this is a 'generic' patch that should apply anywhere. The i370 ('instruction 370') name is anachronistic, but in keeping with the gnu tools naming convention for this arch. Status: 'pre-alpha' would be a good description. In fact, the kernel boots to the point of mounting a ramdisk, and trying to load & exec an ELF binary. Impressive, I suppose but quite misleading: user-level virtual memory is broken, system calls still have glitches, bottom-half handlers not invoked, io subsystem all but missing (there is console out, but that's all), no support for hardware disk drives or network devices, etc. But I figure since its been 5 months since this project was started, its maybe time to feed the patches into the mainstream, even if the system is still unusable. Let me know how to proceed ... - --linas P.S. no I'm not a fan of linux because it sounds like my name, and no, I don't carry a blanket. Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ------------------------------ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
