Re: Porting to different architectures

Jody Bruchon
2006-07-31T17:42:55Z

I'm here.

My main machine (the host) had an Athlon XP barbecue.

I'm using a temporary Linux box but haven't gotten around to putting
thttpd on it yet.

I'll see what I can do, but I'll definitely need someone to mail me the
ELKS source tarball again so I can put it back up. I've got real UNIX
now, so you won't see CRLF problems anymore :)

Also, I have full access to the entire ELKS project. Mail me if you
need stuff done and I'll try to take care of it.

Thanks!

Jody

Richard Wallman wrote:
> Hans wrote:
>> There are still a number of people on this list but most of us are in
>> "screen saver" mode :-)
>
> I've been following this project for about 7 years now, and it seems
> like it regularly goes into "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've been working on getting it to work with GCC for 386+ processors,
> and it's not pretty. GCC support would make porting a lot easier, given
> the number of processor targets it supports.
>
> The next trick would be to remove some of the PC-specific stuff - not
> all systems have a BIOS, for example. I keep meaning to dig out the old
> laptop I was given (286 based Toshiba thing) and get a serial console
> working. I'm still keen to get it running on my Psion 3C. :)
>
>> (I have to admit I am a hardware designer :-).
>
> May come in useful... :)
>
>> I am pretty sure that one of us can email you the latest source files
>
> The SourceForge CVS server works, it's just the download instructions on
> the site that are wrong.
>
> If you replace "anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net" with
> "anonymous@elks.cvs.sourceforge.net" it all works well.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any of the project admins (the ones with the
> CVS SSH key) awake ATM - I was going to see if I could get a copy of the
> key so that *someone* could commit changes! Failing that, I would
> (reluctantly) have to fork the project just to keep things moving.
>
> So, project admins - anyone awake?
>