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://compsolutions.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: <chriscureau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-8086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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