Re: A REAL installation opportunity!
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 03:07:26PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote:
> Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
>
> > Unfortunately Hurd does not support Alpha yet. There was an attempt
> > to port gnumach to Alpha, which would go most of the way to porting
> > Hurd to that platform. But that project (hurd-alpha on sourceforge)
> > seems to be dead/stalled for quite some time.
>
> Would porting oskit to alpha be a good way to get hurd on non-x86
> machines? According to the oskit home page, it seems that it currently
> works only on x86 and strongarm.
Yes, that would definitely do most of the work since the hardest part
of porting to a new arch is porting the drivers. There are i386 dependent
parts to oskit-mach still, but they are not very large. However
it would still take some effort and experience with the Alpha hardware
to do the port.
Igor
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