From: Gary Thomas <gdt@linuxppc.org>
To: Roy Wood <roy@centricsystems.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: RE: Resurrecting mkLinux
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:12:56 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.990407081256.gdt@linuxppc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288712801-202206156@mail.centricsystems.ca>
On 06-Apr-99 Roy Wood wrote:
>
> I've got a little time and an old 6100, so I'm giving some thought to
> raiding the mkLinux sources and getting a monolithic version of the
> kernel going (i.e. getting rid of the whole Mach layer).
>
> My plan is to get video working first, then the ADB keyboard, followed by
> SCSI and network support. Oh-- and maybe serial too, eventually.
>
> Stop me right now if this is a stupid idea, please, but don't forget to
> tell me why it is. :-)
>
>
> Anyway, I was hoping some of you people here might be able to offer
> advice or have some useful comments about what I'm considering doing.
>
> Anybody? Anyone?
>
Your biggest problems will be:
* Booting - perhaps BootX can be made to help here
* Lack of Open Firmware - used to "size up" the hardware
* 601 support - biggest worries are actually the in the hardest
to debug - boot time and machine initialization.
Other than that, it should work. Of course, I'm not saying it is
easy or else I would have done it myself long ago...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-07 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-06 18:41 Resurrecting mkLinux Roy Wood
1999-04-06 23:16 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-04-07 1:11 ` Dave Weis
1999-04-07 3:09 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-04-07 8:26 ` a sun
1999-04-07 14:15 ` Jesper Skov
1999-04-07 14:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-04-07 15:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-04-07 17:27 ` a sun
1999-04-07 17:42 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-04-07 8:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-04-07 7:12 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
1999-04-08 9:42 ` Hubert Figuiere
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1999-04-07 10:24 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-04-07 18:52 ` a sun
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.03.9904071324330.27618-100000@mercator.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
1999-04-07 11:37 ` Jesper Skov
1999-04-08 22:56 Ben Martz
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