On 02/07/12 09:49, Harley Laue wrote:
On 02/05/2012 11:14 PM, Jody wrote:
Hello everyone on the ELKS list; check this out:
http://elks.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=elks/elks;a=summary
Took me a few hours to get right, but there it is, for better or
worse. You're welcome. ;-) Now I'm going to bed.
Jody Bruchon
Just a curious question, is there a reason you decided to have elks,
elkscmd, and elksnet in the same repo instead of splitting them into
their own git repos?
The simplest reason is that it was far easier to do it all in one shot
(IOW: I'm lazy); additional thoughts include:
* It's all one big project (i.e. ELKS the kernel is useless without
commands to run)
* It seems that these components are tightly tied to each other (really,
what use is elkscmd without the ELKS kernel?)
* elksnet is minuscule and shouldn't have its own repository; if
anything, I feel it should be merged into elkscmd.
* I'm a minimalist and a pragmatist, and while the command sources
should be split from the kernel sources, I see no reason to dump them
into different repos; without an obvious and practical good reason to
add that extra complication, I won't.
Of course, if I'm wrong in that choice, we should talk about why.
Honestly, at this stage, ELKS is in very real danger of dropping into
irrelevance and left to rot forever. I could care less if every command
had its own git repo, so long as people are working on the project!
Additionally, I'd like to assemble a list of open-source compilers that
can build for 8086 and either are targeted to other 16-bit CPUs or can
be relatively easily retargeted (I use that term loosely with compilers.
If anyone has suggestions for alternative compilers, please email me
with them, and I'll build a list and examine the merits of each against
the others. The only ones I know of are tcc (by Fabrice Bellard), SDCC
(targets Z80 but maybe we can retarget it)...and the venerable Bruce's C
Compiler (bcc) which we already use. I dug up the original (non-Dev86)
source for it and the 6809 target parts are in that version, so maybe I
can figure out how to retarget it if I can dig up a 6809 emulator somewhere.
Jody Bruchon
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