Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 20:22:31 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD/alpha status report (2) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980529201216.15699W-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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I reached a significant milestone today. I exec'ed '/sbin/init' (binary from NetBSD) and it successfully managed a few syscalls and even a page fault or two before it choked deep inside __sysctl. It won't be long before I get a single-user shell working. Along the way, I have successfully probed for simulated devices on a simulated PCI bus and attached simulated SCSI disks :-). I am *not* currently using NetBSD's bus_space stuff to handle accesses to device i/o ports and memory. Given that 99% of the machines that the port will work on don't need the complexity of bus_space, I have taken the Linux route and each chipset will supply versions of inb etc which perform the relavent contortions. Next week, I will probably commit some of this code. I have made a lot of 64bit fixes to generic kernel code which I need to test on i386. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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