Re: Porting to different architectures

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

Hi Chris,

There are still a number of people on this list but most of us are in 
"screen saver" mode :-)

Porting ELKS to another (embedded) processor will definitely bring ELKS back 
to live (IMHO) but this is a huge and complicated task. Just changing the 
compiler from BCC to say Watcom is already a difficult task (I have to admit 
I am a hardware designer :-).

I tried Jody's http://compsolutions.ath.cx:88/elks/ site as well and indeed 
it looks down. I am pretty sure that one of us can email you the latest 
source files,

Hans
www.ht-lab.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chriscureau@bellsouth.net>
To: <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Porting to different architectures


> Hello, all!
>
> I was glad to see that the ELKS project had a new maintainer...but when I 
> saw that the distribution site was down, I thought I'd better check to see 
> whether anyone was really still alive here.  Assuming there is someone out 
> there reading my mail, I have two ideas to discuss...
>
> A friend of mine and I are in the process of building a single board 
> computer based on Western Design Center's 65c265, which is a 16-bit MCU 
> which supports program sizes up to 64k, and data sizes up to the limit of 
> memory (16M). Naturally, our first choice for an operating system for this 
> hardware would be a unix-variant...and since ELKS is already coded for the 
> 8086, we thought we could do a pretty straight port of it.  I'd really 
> like to get the latest release, but unfortunately it looks as if Jody 
> Bruchon's site is down.
>
> Actually, that brings me to my next idea...I have a server at home with a 
> 6M/512k DSL connection.  I know, it's not a super fast connection, but it 
> is available...and I would like to offer it to be used as a mirror for the 
> ELKS project.  I will also offer whatever help I can for fixing the CVS 
> repository, or perhaps considering with others a move to SVN.
>
> I hope that there is still life in this code yet...it would be rather nice 
> to see Linux booting on our hardware. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Cureau
>
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