missing BK architectures?

missing BK architectures?

[Larry McVoy]

At OLS I got a number of requests for a PARISC BK release.  One of the 
the PARISC guys (Wilcox?  I apologize, I can picture the person but not
the name, nice guy, black hair, pony tail, medium height, glasses) who
works at HP was kind enough to offer a loan/donation of a box on which
to run Linux/PARISC.  Which is way cool and we promised that within 24
hours of getting the box we'd have finished the port (Linux on different
architectures is so easy to port to that if it takes more than a few 
minutes, we're positive it's our code).

Anyway, kudos to the HP guys aside, are there other architectures for
which someone wants a Linux port of BK?  I know we need to release a 
zseries version, that's in the works (noone is donating a zseries and
I'm pretty sure we couldn't afford the power bill anyway, but I have
an account on their public server), but what about other archs?  Are
we missing any you care about?

Cheers,
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

re: missing BK architectures?

[dank]

Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
> At OLS I got a number of requests for a PARISC BK release. ...
> Anyway, kudos to the HP guys aside, are there other architectures for
> which someone wants a Linux port of BK?  I know we need to release a 
> zseries version, that's in the works (noone is donating a zseries and
> I'm pretty sure we couldn't afford the power bill anyway, but I have
> an account on their public server), but what about other archs?  Are
> we missing any you care about?

I hear someone's porting glibc to TOPS-20...
- Dan

(who's still using SourceSafe under Wine at work, goddammit)

Re: missing BK architectures?

[James Simmons]

> Anyway, kudos to the HP guys aside, are there other architectures for
> which someone wants a Linux port of BK?  I know we need to release a
> zseries version, that's in the works (noone is donating a zseries and
> I'm pretty sure we couldn't afford the power bill anyway, but I have
> an account on their public server), but what about other archs?  Are
> we missing any you care about?

I noticed a BK mips tree but it doesn't seem to active. Who is in charge
of it? I really like to push some changes for MIPS into Linus tree.

Re: missing BK architectures?

[Ralf Baechle]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:35:59PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:

> > Anyway, kudos to the HP guys aside, are there other architectures for
> > which someone wants a Linux port of BK?  I know we need to release a
> > zseries version, that's in the works (noone is donating a zseries and
> > I'm pretty sure we couldn't afford the power bill anyway, but I have
> > an account on their public server), but what about other archs?  Are
> > we missing any you care about?
> 
> I noticed a BK mips tree but it doesn't seem to active. Who is in charge
> of it? I really like to push some changes for MIPS into Linus tree.

Me but there isn't much sense in starting to use that bk tree before
MIPS has caught up with Linus, after all we're still at 2.5.2 ...

Pumping 2.5.2 to oss as I'm writing this,

  Ralf