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From: jkant...@paju.oulu.fi (Jussi Kantola)
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Subject: State of Linux for various architectures
Date: 11 Jan 1995 11:46:15 GMT
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As the subject tells, I'd like to know the current state of
Linux for 68k, Alpha, Sun etc... so, please.
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From: torva...@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
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Subject: Re: State of Linux for various architectures
Date: 11 Jan 1995 19:11:43 +0200
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In article <JKANTOLA.95Jan11134...@paju.oulu.fi>,
Jussi Kantola <jkant...@paju.oulu.fi> wrote:
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>As the subject tells, I'd like to know the current state of
>Linux for 68k, Alpha, Sun etc... so, please.
I'll just mention the alpha, as that's what I'm personally working on.
State: I've mostly finished the rough portability-cleanups, and my
kernel compiles cleanly on both the alpha and the i486 platform. The
alpha version doesn't actually link yet, as I haven't implemented all of
the functions required, but it's getting pretty close (28 undefined
functions right now, but some of them are reasonably hairy). So the
alpha kernel obviously doesn't even boot..
I'll be working on the alpha, and I hope to have a linking and booting
kernel by the end of this week: but I'd like to point out that "boot" is
very much different from "work". That will take some time yet (+ the
time to get user-level stuff going to any reasonable degree).
Jim Paradis is also working on the alpha port, although I haven't seen
his source tree yet. He reportedly already has lots of stuff working.
Our ports obviously differ a bit: the 32/64-bit difference has been
mentioned (I am working with a 64-bit port).
The m68k port is working, and has been for some time. It's a separate
source tree, though. The PowerPC port may pick up speed soon: watch
this space.
Linus
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From: para...@sousa.tay1.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
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Subject: Re: State of Linux for various architectures
Date: 13 Jan 1995 16:02:20 -0500
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Linus Torvalds (torva...@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: Jim Paradis is also working on the alpha port, although I haven't seen
: his source tree yet. He reportedly already has lots of stuff working.
: Our ports obviously differ a bit: the 32/64-bit difference has been
: mentioned (I am working with a 64-bit port).
Yup. I've got up to a shell prompt and I can run numerous utilities.
I've been madly scrambling to finish the last few things it needs
so that others can hack on it. I recently got remote kernel debugging
working (so you can do source-level debugging using gdb on a second
machine over a serial port). We're wrapping up the first few sample
device drivers now (originally I was going to ship this thing without
any device drivers other than console callbacks, then realized that
it would be better if *WE* solved the basic hardware interface problems
before we asked anyone else to write drivers!), and there was a
bit-rot regression that I fixed only this week (all-of-a-sudden NOTHING
would work! The kernel would die in the same place on successive runs,
but DIFFERENT places if you added debug code... it was a mess!).
I also pulled together binary-only distributions of the cross-development
tools... without this, it took many hours and 300Mb to compile gcc and
friends. Now you can have binaries for Linux and OSF that take
less than 16Mb to install 8-)
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Jim Paradis (para...@amt.tay1.dec.com)
The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening at once.
It's not working.
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