Subject: Re: The usual query
To: Matthew Hudson <mhudson@home.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-m88k
Date: 02/11/2001 23:48:21
	If noone else pipes up I can put it up on ftp.netbsd.org :)

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Matthew Hudson wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> > --
> >  Allen Briggs                     briggs@wasabisystems.com
> >  http://www.wasabisystems.com/    Quality NetBSD CDs, Sales, Support, Service
>