From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: New user wanting to help Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:14:17 -0000 Message-ID: <093701c8290b$01678640$6402a8c0@linux104> References: <607229.29853.qm@web50512.mail.re2.yahoo.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="original" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Weiss" To: Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:46 AM Subject: New user wanting to help > Hi everybody, > > Wondering how many other brain-damaged people are > intersted in this project :) I guess still lots of us :-) .. snip.. > > So... what can I lend a hand to? > The website could use > a little work, Definitely, what we need is a wiki site so that everybody can contribute. I am a bit disappointed that Rask Lambertsen's GCC port and the Dioscuri emulator (which runs ELKS!) are not mentioned on the website, come on guys, it can't be that much work to add some hyperlinks... > every site aside from the sourceforge > project page and cix.co.uk listed on the main site is > inaccessible. > Also, I've come across some mail > archives other than what's lited on vger, which does > not exist. Or... maybe there's a 16-bit gcc patch > someone's been cooking and needs some authentic iron > to try it out on? Yes please, Rask Lambertsen has done a great job in patching GCC for the 8086. Compiling ELKS under GCC is not going to be easy but IMHO will be very beneficial for the wider embedded user community and hence will/might increase the popularity of ELKS. However, having said that, any contribution is welcome. Just work on what you are interested in and publish the result on a webpage. Hans www.ht-lab.com