Hello all! I too had looked at ELKS initially because I had hopes that I could port the sources to the WDC 65816...a friend of mine and I have been working on a single board computer for some time now that needs an operating system, and with 16 megs of addressable RAM... :-) What I would like to see would be a separated design, where the architecture independent and architecture dependent portions are in separate directories. This would help to make the project usable for people who don't have the 8086/80286 hardware anymore, but are still interested in 16-bitters. Just my ideas, Chris Cureau > > From: Jody <jbruchon@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2007/05/05 Sat PM 02:58:51 EDT > To: ELKS <linux-8086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Regarding the Future of ELKS > > Hello everyone. This is Jody, the current maintainer of the ELKS > project. I wanted to ask for everyone's opinion on what the future of > ELKS should be. > > I can see many compelling reasons to drop ELKS entirely or shift it away > from the 80(2)86-oriented platform, including the following: > > * No one works on ELKS. Really. I'm no C programmer, and apparently > all the ones that COULD work on it have moved on to "bigger better > things" in their lives. > > * 8086/80286 cores are being dropped in favor of other platforms, > including ARM, 386EX, Coldfire, etc. While embedded Linux covers a lot > of that territory, there is certainly some room for discussion of > changing ELKS to be more portable and pushing it to those platforms. > The minimalist approach to the ELKS kernel would make it far smaller > than Linux and it could potentially compete with the likes of other > smaller operating systems used in embedded applications, such as VxWorks. > > * ELKS has not developed to a very "usable" stage yet. There are a > hundred different ways the project could go, but the original stated > goals are quickly showing that they are not it. Lack of interest in the > project and limited ability to reuse the code are clear signs that > something must change. > > To those of you who are still subscribed to this list: what do you think > should be done? I look forward to hearing your answers! > > ~Jody > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
