Re: Re^2: NetBSD-Mach?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:33:36 -0800 (PST) 
 wrstuden%loki.stanford.edu@localhost (Bill Studenmund) wrote:

 > You may have good reason to be hesitant. I'm not sufficiently familiar
 > with Mach to know the issues. But because of Apple's support of the
 > MkLinux project, people ARE going to base "production" machines on
 > it (or at least try to). I think a port of Lites would get us up &
 > running quick, and give an alternative to Linux. And we let Apple
 > port it to all the macs at first. :-)

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.

        (b) The Mach kernel they're using is unlike any Mach kernel
            I've ever seen.  (I couldn't find the pmap, for example.)

If (b) is true, it's not likely that porting Lites to it will be all that
easy.

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?

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