Porting to different architectures

Hi Chris,

There are still a number of people on this list but most of
us are in 
"screen saver" mode 

Porting ELKS to another (embedded) processor will definitely
bring ELKS back 
to live (IMHO) but this is a huge and complicated task. Just
changing the 
compiler from BCC to say Watcom is already a difficult task
(I have to admit 
I am a hardware designer .

I tried Jody's http://compsolut
ions.ath.cx:88/elks/ site as well and indeed 
it looks down. I am pretty sure that one of us can email you
the latest 
source files,

Hans
www.ht-lab.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chriscureaubellsouth.net>
To: <linux-8086vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Porting to different architectures


> Hello, all!
>
> I was glad to see that the ELKS project had a new
maintainer...but when I 
> saw that the distribution site was down, I thought I'd
better check to see 
> whether anyone was really still alive here.  Assuming
there is someone out 
> there reading my mail, I have two ideas to discuss...
>
> A friend of mine and I are in the process of building a
single board 
> computer based on Western Design Center's 65c265,
which is a 16-bit MCU 
> which supports program sizes up to 64k, and data sizes
up to the limit of 
> memory (16M). Naturally, our first choice for an
operating system for this 
> hardware would be a unix-variant...and since ELKS is
already coded for the 
> 8086, we thought we could do a pretty straight port of
it.  I'd really 
> like to get the latest release, but unfortunately it
looks as if Jody 
> Bruchon's site is down.
>
> Actually, that brings me to my next idea...I have a
server at home with a 
> 6M/512k DSL connection.  I know, it's not a super fast
connection, but it 
> is available...and I would like to offer it to be used
as a mirror for the 
> ELKS project.  I will also offer whatever help I can
for fixing the CVS 
> repository, or perhaps considering with others a move
to SVN.
>
> I hope that there is still life in this code yet...it
would be rather nice 
> to see Linux booting on our hardware. 
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Cureau
>
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