From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: Regarding the Future of ELKS Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 10:23:23 +0100 Message-ID: <005401c78fc0$35f3a040$6502a8c0@dionysus> References: <463CD3EB.6020506@nc.rr.com> Reply-To: "Hans" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="response" To: ELKS Hi Jody, I am sure there is still live in ELKS but unless it is picked up by a very enthusiastic experienced hacker with lots of spare time and experience I think ELKS will remain a dormant project (like so many of sourceforge). Unfortunately my hardware is not PC/XT compatible which means that I need to understand all the nitty gritty stuff. When I looked at the source code I quickly came to realise that this is an un-doable project for me. This was not helped by a custom C compiler and non-flexible development environment so in the end I gave up and became one of the many(?) low-active lurkers on this list :-) I will remain subscribed to this list and hope that one day ELKS will burst into life with a vengeance :-) Hans www.ht-lab.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jody" To: "ELKS" Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 7:58 PM Subject: Regarding the Future of ELKS > Hello everyone. This is Jody, the current maintainer of the ELKS project. > I wanted to ask for everyone's opinion on what the future of ELKS should > be. > > I can see many compelling reasons to drop ELKS entirely or shift it away > from the 80(2)86-oriented platform, including the following: > > * No one works on ELKS. Really. I'm no C programmer, and apparently all > the ones that COULD work on it have moved on to "bigger better things" in > their lives. > > * 8086/80286 cores are being dropped in favor of other platforms, > including ARM, 386EX, Coldfire, etc. While embedded Linux covers a lot of > that territory, there is certainly some room for discussion of changing > ELKS to be more portable and pushing it to those platforms. The minimalist > approach to the ELKS kernel would make it far smaller than Linux and it > could potentially compete with the likes of other smaller operating > systems used in embedded applications, such as VxWorks. > > * ELKS has not developed to a very "usable" stage yet. There are a > hundred different ways the project could go, but the original stated goals > are quickly showing that they are not it. Lack of interest in the project > and limited ability to reuse the code are clear signs that something must > change. > > To those of you who are still subscribed to this list: what do you think > should be done? I look forward to hearing your answers! > > ~Jody > - > 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 >