From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: Porting to different architectures Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:00:06 +0100 Message-ID: <01ad01c6b4b2$07e4c790$6502a8c0@dionysus> References: <20060731140941.IIPE1187.ibm68aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> 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="original" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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: To: 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 > > - > 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 >