From: Hamish Macdonald hamish@border.ocunix.on.ca
Subject: Plan9 for Amiga ??
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 08:38:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950906123850.K5QDJNXPy0L8ytqlQ04OEEb84fB3Z0wczwxd6McB7Js@z> (raw)
In article <199509061805.EAA22994@molly.cs.monash.edu.au>, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
wrote:
> Another nice thing is that, once an Amiga port exists, an Atari port
> would be trivial. The Amiga and Atari versions of Linux/68k run off the
> same binaries, and perhaps even dual-purpose kernel images.
I wouldn't say trivial. The common portion between the Atari and Amiga for
the Linux port is the context switching and memory management stuff.
For a plan9 port you'd hopefully be getting this stuff from an earlier Sun3
or NeXT port anyway. The "tough" part of a port is the device drivers, and
creating drivers for the Amiga hardware isn't really going to help you
drivers for the Atari hardware.
Your latter remark is correct, in that identical Linux/68k binaries run on
either machine when it is running a Linux/68k kernel, and you can
configure/build a "superset" kernel which can be booted on either machine.
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1995-09-06 12:38 Hamish [this message]
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1995-09-06 18:05 Andrew
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1995-09-06 11:51 Hamish
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