Re: Porting to different architectures

Jody Bruchon
2006-08-01T05:27:37Z

On top of that, the 8088 isn't really even used in embedded stuff
anymore AFAIK. From what I understand, the embedded Intel CPU of choice
is an i386EX and that likely can run Linux unmodified.

The biggest problem I see with ELKS is that it has a lot of features,
and 90% of said features are either broken, unimplemented, or
half-functional. Furthermore, we're so lacking in knowledgeable kernel
developers with TIME available to work on the project that it's not
going to go anywhere.

Compounding the problems is the fact that bcc has proven time and time
again to be a very volatile compiler package, to the point that even one
version revision can mean the difference between successful compilation
or errors galore.

On a side note, I'm developing an OS for the 6502/65C02/65816 line of
CPUs from Western Design Center, if anyone's interested in that kind of
stuff.

~Jody

Tom McCabe wrote:
>
> --- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Ar Llu, 2006-07-31 am 21:47 +0200, ysgrifennodd
>> Javier Sedano:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Richard Wallman wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> I think there is a (slow, painful, bureaucratic)
>> mechanism to retake
>>> abandoned projects. If you really want to do it,
>> mail the sourceforge
>>> team to look for a solution.
>> If you plan to use it as the basis for a new OS for
>> something else I
>> would fork it. The existing project is as good as
>> dead and it's probably
>> easier to just turn it into what you need than worry
>> about breaking the
>> existing code.
>
> Agreed. We can keep the current version for historical
> purposes, and if someone wants to build a better OS
> for ancient machines, there are more popular and
> better designs than the 8088.
>
>> Alan
>>
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