Self hosting on a.out base systems. Under a self hosting system I set up
today, I have most apps I can find compiling perfectly. Some notable
things we lack: virtual terminals (I'm rumnning getty on /dev/console),
working mach program support (i.e. Mach IPC, etc., don't appear to be
working, since mach_init is brokenish (well, not really, this is
link/compile issues)), good ELF support on non-elf hosts (we rely on the
host system too much since we have no real userland).
Nobody has done much in the way of device drivers. That means that
currently all there is is original Mach style drivers for IDE disks a
little SCSI, and NE2K nics. Not sure what else off the top of my head.
HTH
/joseph
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[ Joseph Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] [ http://srcsys.org ]
[ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ]
[ Proud {Free,Net}BSD User; (Obj)C(++) Programmer ] [ http://xMach.org ]
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Brett Glass wrote:
> Have been clearing my plate to make time for such things.... I should
> be able to help with driver development. Please send info on current
> project status.
>
> --Brett
>
> At 02:33 PM 5/15/2001, Joseph A. Mallett wrote:
>
> >You get err half credit. My xMach box is.
> >
> >Note that I got perl 5.6.0 to compiler PERFECTLY as well, same for GCC
> >2.95.3. binutils did as well, but the ld was broken, so I used the old
> >netbsd ld, and the as I had just compiled. Everything works. I even perl
> >fokbombed myself. That felt elite. HEH.
> >
> >Really, if someone wants to fix up the driver stuff, I won't mind.
> >
> >At one point Brett Glass said something about helping with this... What
> >happened to that?
> >
> >--
> >[ Joseph Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] [ http://srcsys.org ]
> >[ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ]
> >[ Proud {Free,Net}BSD User; (Obj)C(++) Programmer ] [ http://xMach.org ]
> >
> >On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mondragon, Ian wrote:
> >
> >> hm...um...damn...c'mon...think....ummm...
> >>
> >> you?
> >>
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Joseph A. Mallett [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM
> >> > To: xMach Core Mailing List
> >> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > Subject: [xMach-core] Guess who's self-hosting
> >> >
> >> > Go on. Guess.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > [ Joseph Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] [ http://srcsys.org ]
> >> > [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ]
> >> > [ Proud {Free,Net}BSD User; (Obj)C(++) Programmer ] [ http://xMach.org ]
> >>
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