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Introduction
This patch contains some preliminary work done to port the OSKit to the
Alpha architecture. The code as it currently is works, and is used for, the
GNU-hurd/alpha port.
It has not yet been used for standalone OSKit kernels
(e.g., the example kernels).
The OSKit/Alpha support was started by Andrew Miklic as part of the
gnu-hurd/alpha development effort. Most of the actual coding of
Alpha-specifics is complete, but there is still a lot to be tested (parts
of kern still need some work). Known remaining work lies in
gdb/stack-trace stuff, pc device support (oskit/pc and kern/pc), and IO
port-space support (Alpha does not have any processor primitives as does
x86 for iops access, so this is a chipset-specific/platform-specifc
problem for Alpha).
Some initial work has also been done for the linux-dev and linux-fs
libraries (2.2.x at the moment), but they still needs some work (they
do not even finish compiling--the remaining work likely lies in
finding/fixing/porting/etc. of some x86-specific portions of the glue
code).
The latest (and sometime greatest) versions of the code can be found at
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd-alpha
under cvsroot/hurd-alpha/oskit.
If you are interested in contributing to this work, please contact
miklic@attglobal.net.
Using the patch
The patch is against the
20020317 ``St. Patrick's Day'' snapshot.
To apply the patch:
cd root-of-your-oskit-tree
patch -p1 < path-to-patch
--host=alpha-gnu --build=alpha-linux
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