Re: Porting to different architectures

Hans
2006-07-31T15:00:06Z

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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