From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander van Heukelum" Subject: Re: Help Wanted! Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:51:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1127539824.8686.33.camel@selene.hsol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1127539824.8686.33.camel@selene.hsol.net> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Miguel Bolanos , linux-8086@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:30:24 -0600 Miguel Bolanos wrote: >Greetings to all, > >As you may have noticed the project has been stuck for quite a while, i >am looking forward to bring it back to life, but and would like to ask >for some help, obviously coders are very welcome, but also people >willing to help writing docs, and even people looking forward to help us >create a new look for the project website. >Looking forward to hear back from you. Hi! I don't think I will be of much help, but the ELKS project has interested me enough to keep myself subscribed to the list (and the list hasn't received enough spam to annoy me ;) ) My _personal_ opinion is that ELKS as it stands (8086-specific) will never have enough support to become an interesting project. Supporting more architectures means that there is the need for a flexible compiler, and very portable code. I think portable code is equivalent to "gcc-like" in this case, but gcc itself seems far too complex to ever work in a "small" environment. The TinyCC [1] compiler comes close, and already has non-i386 code generators. It lacks a pure 8086 generator, however. I also think that the compiler should implement a 32 bit int (and in fact adhere to the limits as given in susv3 [2]). That way there could be more code-sharing with other "modern" projects, in particular dietlibc, uClibc, Busybox. Anyhow: Good Luck :) btw. Who is the maintainer of this list? Majordomo says: >>>>> info linux-8086 >Linux on 8086 -- non-MMU, very small address spaces > >Archives: > http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/ >>>>> who linux-8086 >**** Command disabled. regards, Alexander [1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ [2] http://unix.org >regards > >Miguel. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html