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ELKS -- Linux 8086
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Dec 1 15:51:41 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:40:23 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
Subject: ELKS -- Linux 8086
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What is Linux 8086
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Linux 8086 is the first part of the ELKS project to build an
embeddable Linux kernel subset, and also effectively a small Linuxlike
kernel for little computers. The initial target is 80x86 PC's.
There is now a mailing list thank to DaveM.. linux-8086@vger.rutgers.edu
What State Is Linux 8086 in
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The bootblocks work, a BIOS console output driver works, the cut
down printk works most of the time, a few device probes are in and the timer
interrupt code is driving a jiffy counter to prove the irq code is ok.
Chad Page is working on the scheduler and has a basic 8086 scheduler
working. Chad also did the bootloader and other bits.
What Tools Are There
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To cross build you need as86/ld86/bcc. All these are free or GPL'd
or free. as86/ld86 are in the bin86-0.2 package. Bcc can be found on
ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/8086.
Where do I find the code
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The scheduler work is on ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/8086, the other
bits I have been hacking on are on shadow.cabi.net:/pub/ELKS/. The two are
not merged currently, and you need to add
#asm
jmp _main
#endasm
at the top of init/main.c to make the one I put up build. A new one with
chad's scheduling code in should appear soon.
What Needs To Be Done
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Almost everything. C libraries, cross compile setup for user
programs. On the kernel side a complete set of drivers and file systems as
well as finishing off the scheduler, cleaning up and getting the Makefiles
working properly. The code so far is just a beginning - this is one for
people who want to hack nasty low level code at the moment.
Alan
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