I've downloaded and compiled ACK, which took about 4.5minutes on my p-m notebook - been looking for something like the 'em' targets for a few days now. Very nice, and I'm glad it's BSD licensed, too.
Getting ELKS user space apps working will mostly be a library issue - the convertor shouldn't be a big deal. In fact, 'file' thinks a.out is a Linux-8086 executable already. It looks like we can either port the bin86 libc or adapt included (minix?) libc to make ELKS system calls. Given the way ack works we might have real trouble with the kernel's inline assembly - we'll have to move as much of the embedded assembly as possible into assembly files, and make the ack linker deal with them. I'd have to look at the minix code to see how things are dealt with there. - Chad OBCrazyTalk: With particularly twisted hacks of em, and a multi-task interpreter, and some *really* tight and small code, something ELKSlike might, just might run on a Z80... ;) It would certainly run under regular Linux as a process, though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
