Re: GCC port for Intel 8086, 80186 and 80286

[Chad <chad.page@gmail.com>]

2007/8/30, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk>:

>    I've just posted an update which inludes support for generating ELKS
> binaries. Please see
> <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-08/msg02195.html>.

Awesome - I would so have loved to have this way back when.  Now to
find time to try it out...

On 8/30/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rask,
> congratulations!
>
> I hope ELKS become active newly and in future it can be integrated to
> main kernel just like happened to uclinux. I known ELKS is based in a
> very old kernel source, but we can dream about it.
>
> Just dreaming :-)

If you're interested in working on mainline tree stuff look into a
ucLinux port to i386, if there isn't already one*, and in addition a
cool ucLinux-centric distribution/packaging.  OpenEmbedded would be a
good base since you can build for many different archs, but it can be
a bit interesting to wrangle ;)

(* - yes this sounds nuts... but it might be faster than regular Linux
and probably smaller.  At least Samsung's people measured that while
working on mmu-less ARM ucLinux.)

- Chad