Subject: Re: Short "update"
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
List: port-pdp10
Date: 06/14/2002 17:42:32
On 14 Jun 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:

> > I have managed to compile (or, get past the compiler step) all basic
> > kernel files that are needed initially. This required some work, the
> > kernel is not always 36-bit friendly but it was easier than I thought.
> > This resulted in a bunch of bug reports to Lars, but he is happily
> > fixing bugs in the compiler :-)
>
> Getting the simulator into pkgsrc will make it easier for people to
> help. Is anyone working on this?

I'll be working on this over the weekend.

> > The next step is to get a cross-assembler/linker running, so that we
> > can see if the generated code _is_ correct. That may take a while.
>
> Gnu binutils doesn't support the '10 yet?

Not yet.  Lars' GCC pages mention that XKL didn't have that on the top
of their list for the GCC port.  Lars would be able to speak more
definitively on the state of binutils.

-brian.