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From: "Gábor Lénárt" <lgb@lgb.hu>
To: ELKS <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding the Future of ELKS
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:08:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070506100850.GC9720@lgb.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463D00EF.9060901@alaska.net>

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:10:55PM -0800, Royce Williams wrote:
> 3. Speed.  Compiling to test on an 8086 is maddeningly slow.
> 
> Possible solution: For true 8086-only emulation, find a good free
> emulator, or contact someone who has a commercial one (emu8086.com,
> for example) and see if they'll cut us a break on a pack of license
> for core developers.

Or port ELKS to Linux user space, like UML. This helps testing the system,
though does not help to test hardware drivers for example: anyway it can be
a useful task both to make ELKS portable and test ELKS as a "normal" process
runnable on Linux.

-- 
- Gábor
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-06 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-05 18:58 Regarding the Future of ELKS Jody
2007-05-05 22:10 ` Royce Williams
2007-05-05 22:14   ` NOTICE REGARDING SENDING MAIL TO THE ELKS LIST Jody
2007-05-06 10:08   ` Gábor Lénárt [this message]
2007-05-06 12:54   ` Regarding the Future of ELKS David Given
2007-05-06 13:46     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-06 17:13       ` David Given
2007-05-06 18:37         ` Alan Cox
2007-05-05 22:25 ` Mario Frasca
2007-05-06  9:23 ` Hans
2007-05-06 17:46 ` Luis A. Montes
2007-05-07 12:19 ` Mario Urban
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-07 18:12 chriscureau

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