Re: Help Wanted!

["Hans" <hans64@ht-lab.com>]

>(DOS gets away with it because, basically, DOS is crap. It relies on the 
>BIOS
>to do a lot of the work, which ELKS can't really do.

Why not?

I actually like the BIOS :-)  since it is the BIOS which enables me to write 
a debug style monitor which runs on my FPGA board and with very minor 
modifications on my 64bits desktop. I actually believe that the success of 
ELKS relies on the definition of an easy to port BIOS/HAL layer. I would 
even suggest that we define a standard set of BIOS calls.  If your processor 
doesn't support software interrupt then perhaps a CALL instruction would 
work?

>Can ELKS be ported to *other* architectures that i86? Would it be feasible 
>to
>use it on a modern, flat architecture like ARM?

I assume with flat you are referring to a segment/offset style of 
architecture, I haven't check the ELKS code in any detail but I assume this 
issue can easily be resolved?

I would forget about ARM since they have a very good uCLinux port and gcc 
support.

Regards,
Hans
www.ht-lab.com




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From: "David Given" <dg@cowlark.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Help Wanted!