RE: Resurrecting mkLinux

On 06-Apr-99 Roy Wood wrote:

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I've got a little time and an old 6100, so I'm giving some thought to
raiding the mkLinux sources and getting a monolithic version of the
kernel going (i.e. getting rid of the whole Mach layer).

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Anyway, I was hoping some of you people here might be able to offer
advice or have some useful comments about what I'm considering doing.

Anybody?  Anyone?

Your biggest problems will be:
 * Booting - perhaps BootX can be made to help here
 * Lack of Open Firmware - used to "size up" the hardware
 * 601 support - biggest worries are actually the in the hardest
   to debug - boot time and machine initialization.

Other than that, it should work.  Of course, I'm not saying it is
easy or else I would have done it myself long ago...

Roy,

I have some very old booting code from the defunct PowerOS project that
works just fine on x100 machines. (It was the second public use of the Gary
mode hack that I am aware of, after MkLinux) I also have some more recent
work based on BootX that you may find useful.

http://home.earthlink.net/~benmartz/poweros/

Oh, in case anyone is wondering, you won't find any of the kernel code up
there because I am still working on it =) It's just a little project that I
am doing for my own enjoyment to stretch my mind a little.


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Ben Martz - benmartz@earthlink.net



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