From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miguel Bolanos Subject: Future of ELKS Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:55:25 -0600 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1084985870.3062.23.camel@talena.hsol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Good day to all, The project seems to be finally awaking from a very long period of inactivity, this can be reflected not only by the traffic on the mailing list, but on the amount of people hanging around at the irc channel and the quality of the discussions over there. Based on this facts, I believe that it is important that all the people involved and interested in ELKS, provide their own opinions on what the future of ELKS should be... I know of many wanting to have specific features that are not currently in the kernel.. and others that as well have interesting ideas for code reduction and improvements. So if you are one them, please feel free yourself, as all this feedback is important for us upgrade the TODO and roadmap of the project. The current things that are been done are: - Creation of an additional kernel that will use linux 2.6 coding style, this is been done because we are looking forward to enable the possibility of including support for 8086 and similar on the official linux kernel as an option... of course this is will take a long time, and doesn't mean that work on the current "production kernel" will be depricated or anything like that, we which to encorage you to keep contributing on the "production" kernel.. and the "new" kernel project will be a work in parallel that at some point will have all this improvements on the production kernel merged. - A possibility of using gcc to create 8086 binaries might be a possibility with a patch created by our irc friend boto. If the tests of this are successful we will enable elkscmd to let the users decide if they which to use gcc-8086 or our current bcc :) Anyways thats all for now. Hope to hear back from all. best wishes Mike