From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49C42C53.5020308@orcasystems.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:52:51 -0700 From: James Tomaschke User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <13426df10903200723h48d692e3lb1266a112c61d8f7@mail.gmail.com> <701581b43c25c1d9450823536223f6ce@quanstro.net> <13426df10903201616o3f2e7149i4b589fc1f4f2790a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df10903201616o3f2e7149i4b589fc1f4f2790a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort of) notebook Topicbox-Message-UUID: c19ecd36-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > >