Subject: Re: The usual query
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Matthew Hudson <mhudson@home.com>
List: port-m88k
Date: 02/01/2001 19:40:22
Aren't we a sorry bunch? I think the only person doing any real work
is Steve. There is a nice ELF .pdf floating around. I have it here
somewhere. Anyone have a place I can give it a home?

-Matt

Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
> > It's a bit boring to see it again, but I'm after an m88k OS for my AV5500.
> 
> Heh.  Still stagnating here, as far as I know.  I'm finally doing more
> NetBSD development, but nothing on the m88k at the moment.  At least I'm
> not saturating myself with NT stuff during the day.  :-)
> Someone has been doing some work, but I'll let him speak up if he wants to.
> I have been too busy (lame) to look much at his progress and do some
> myself.
> 
> > (a) In the last few weeks, I've mailed Steve Murphree a load of 88k/ELF
> > details from the Prentice Hall AT&T reference manuals, which we happened to
> > have at work.  He was going to have a look at GNU binutils to see how
> > difficult an ELF port would be.
> 
> Great!  Do you have these in a soft copy?  I've been looking for 88k/ELF
> docs on and off for quite a while.  I'd really like to have ELF working
> early on...
> 
> > (b) I've got an AV5500 complete with DG/UX and a cable modem, and a mvme88k
> > on loan (but no chassis to put it in at the moment), so theoretically I can
> > do some development.  In practice, I'm usually too lazy. ;-)
> 
> Heh.
> 
> -allen
> 
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