From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1288712801-202206156@mail.centricsystems.ca> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:12:56 +0100 (BST) From: Gary Thomas To: Roy Wood Subject: RE: Resurrecting mkLinux Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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... [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]