Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-07 Thread Roland McGrath
> What parts of OSKit is GNU Mach going to use? I'm assuming that it is not > going to use all of it... You should build the oskit and oskit-mach for x86 (even if you're not going to use it) so you can see for yourself. > So far, I've already got oskit/dev, oskit/oskit/alpha, and oskit/threads

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-06 Thread Andrew M. Miklic
> The oskit is a set of libraries that provide stuff you might want to use in > a kernel, and the direction we are moving is to use oskit libraries to do > everything that they are useful for when it can replace old CMU code. The > oskit is not useful for anything on Alpha at the moment, so there

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-06 Thread Andrew M. Miklic
> Please tell us all the details you can about exactly which version of the > CMU Alpha port code you got from where. I _believe_ it is the old version 2.5 source (by 3.0, support seems to have been dropped)... > As to the oskit-mach issue, I'd say you should just stick with what you are > doi

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Roland McGrath
It's great that you are working on this. Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have any Alpha machines or know where I might come by any, so I don't expect to be able to try it myself. Please tell us all the details you can about exactly which version of the CMU Alpha port code you got from where.

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:47:28PM -0700, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > > You can get the OSKit version of gnumach by checking out the > > oskit branch (-r oskit-branch) of gnumach. You can get the OSKit at > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/. > > > I got the oskit-branch version of gnumach, but

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Andrew M. Miklic
> You can get the OSKit version of gnumach by checking out the > oskit branch (-r oskit-branch) of gnumach. You can get the OSKit at > http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/. I got the oskit-branch version of gnumach, but it seems to be incomplete (the build complains about a bunch of oskit files th

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:19:23PM -0700, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > > > I have completed a very initial (it compiles but does not yet boot) > port > > > of GNU Mach to the Alpha processor--would anyone be willing to review > and > > > submit this patch? > > > > I've not downloaded the patch ye

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Andrew M. Miklic
> > I have completed a very initial (it compiles but does not yet boot) port > > of GNU Mach to the Alpha processor--would anyone be willing to review and > > submit this patch? > > I've not downloaded the patch yet, but do you know we are going to > switch to the OSKit version of gnumach soon

Re: GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:48:48PM -0700, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > All, > > I have completed a very initial (it compiles but does not yet boot) port > of GNU Mach to the Alpha processor--would anyone be willing to review and > submit this patch? I've not downloaded the patch yet, but do you

GNU Mach on Alpha

2002-04-04 Thread Andrew M. Miklic
All, I have completed a very initial (it compiles but does not yet boot) port of GNU Mach to the Alpha processor--would anyone be willing to review and submit this patch? This patch does not affect any x86 files or directories--it merely adds the necessary Alpha-specific directories (and