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From: James Tomaschke <james@orcasystems.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort of) notebook
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:52:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C42C53.5020308@orcasystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10903201616o3f2e7149i4b589fc1f4f2790a@mail.gmail.com>

I would suggest the compiler as well, students are probably more
familiar with compiler concepts and it will probably be easier to
mentor.  In the future, the porting work can be distributed over the
community anyways.

ron minnich wrote:
> Is a mips-64 port a reasonable GSOC project? The person doing it could
> not come in cold, but there is a starting point it seems.
>
> In spite of my earlier suggestion, I have to agree with Russ. Gcc and
> its utils are a daily headache for me, I'd rather just get a mips-64
> compiler port first.
>
> ron
>
>




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 21:53 ron minnich
2009-03-19 23:14 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-19 23:24   ` ron minnich
2009-03-19 23:43     ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 14:23       ` ron minnich
2009-03-20 15:15         ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 15:29           ` ron minnich
2009-03-20 15:31           ` [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort lucio
2009-03-20 16:02             ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 17:57               ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-21  0:39                 ` Uriel
2009-03-20 15:35           ` lucio
2009-03-20 17:11           ` [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort of) notebook Russ Cox
2009-03-20 23:16             ` ron minnich
2009-03-20 23:52               ` James Tomaschke [this message]
2009-03-20 23:56                 ` ron minnich
2009-03-21  0:06                   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-20 18:28           ` Iruata Souza
2009-03-19 23:56     ` Iruata Souza
2009-03-20  2:39       ` [9fans] MIPS-64 Tim Wiess
2009-03-20  2:49   ` [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort john
2009-03-20  3:58     ` Jack Johnson
2009-03-20  4:06       ` Jack Johnson
2009-03-20  4:06     ` Jason Gurtz
2009-03-20  4:20 ` [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort of) lucio
2009-03-23 10:48 ` [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 Abhishek Kulkarni

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