From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 02:40 Subject: [plex86] Long live plex86
| I am very pleased to see plans being made to revive plex86. Me too. | I found the new plex86 project on savannah. I hope the CVS problems can be | solved so the code can endup there too. I have a lot of backup versions | (snapshots) of past, working versions. I can put them on my server if that | helps. Maybe find some version that more or less works. At least something that works with late 2.4 kernels and does not crash the machine. I think that is the best place to start. Later contributions can be added if we understand how to fix them :-) | Could we maybe have a common codebase for the common parts of the two | projects and seperate code for the processor emulation/virtual machine part. | Of course this means the API for the interaction between the parts should be | somewhat stable and at least be documented. Only feasable if Bochs is actively maintained. | Now the bochs code uses "plugins" from bochs. Maybe it is also possible to | make plex86 a plugin into bochs. Just like a | written-in-assembler-and-optimized-for-this-single-host-processor code | interpreter could be a plugin into bochs. I think we better opt for using from Bochs what we need and go on with what we have from Plex86. To be honest, I want to get rid of any Bochs reference. It is a great source, but this project is Plex86 and in my opinion, we should not do anything because it is done in Bochs that way. | But maybe I am going too fast and we should focus on just getting CVS up and | running with a working plex86 version. | That is my opinion too. Bas.