On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:21:49PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> >>     
> > Gcc and the gnu tools don't support this platform and is unlikely to
> > ever do in a reasonable manner.  There are a separate toolchain to
> > compile the system.  And I don't feel to try to define "boot" :-)
> >
> > The root file system issue is a challenge though. Finding a way
> > to use a 32-bit filesystem on a 36-bit hardware :-)
> >   
> 
> Frankly, that the challenge exists or not is not interesting to me.  To
> me, this problem is one that is either going to be fixed or it isn't. 
> If it isn't, then why bother having pdp10 in-tree?

I think there is considerable value to having a port to an architecture
that does not have a power-of-two word size, just from a portability
point of view.  And the universe of available hardware for pdp10 is
sufficiently small that it just isn't (and never will be) that much
code to deal with.

I would like to see the pdp10 PCC-based toolchain somehow be integrated
into build.sh.  That, too, isn't much code, and it can also compile the
i386 port, I believe; there's considerable value to regularly building
our tree with more than one compiler.  Because Caldera released all the
required parts under a BSD-style license it seems basically certain
that this is OK, but I think we are currently awaiting the end of the
idiotic IBM/SCO litigation before incorporating that code into our tree,
on a "belt and suspenders" basis.

Thor