Subject: Re: Re^2: NetBSD-Mach?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Tom Rini <trini@ntplx.net>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 12/11/1996 15:17:01
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>So, I was looking through the sources available on the mlklinux ftp
>server, and unless I really missed something, one or both of the following
>are true:
>
> (a) The Mach kernel is distributed separately.
Hmm, the DR1 and 2 installers have a copy, Updates/XXXXXX.update/ have a
Mach Kernel, the diffs since the last update, and total src.
> (b) The Mach kernel they're using is unlike any Mach kernel
> I've ever seen. (I couldn't find the pmap, for example.)
Well, I caught nick stephens on irc, and asked him, and he said you were
looking in the wrong place (i don't know the right one, but i'm not a
coder.)
>If (b) is true, it's not likely that porting Lites to it will be all that
>easy.
Welp, Nick suggjested it to me when multi-servers first started working.
>
>Though, I really could be missing something... from my study of the
>sources, there seemed to be _lots_ of pieces missing (low-level,
>essential stuff). Can someone here post the canonical location of
>_all_ of the pieces needed to run mklinux on a NuBus Powermac?
Mail nick and ask him, i'm sure he'd be glad to answer technical
questions.
-Tartarus
Homepage: http://www.grayphics.com/~tartarus/
http://www.macintosh.net/mklinux/
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