Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:01:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS Message-ID: <199808050801.BAA21512@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804230635.7284B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> from "Tom" at Aug 4, 98 11:10:20 pm
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> > > It looks like the SpinOS people are using LFS. They are also using > > > CAM. They credit FreeBSD on their web pages. > > > > > > They need Linux to build and FreeBSD to boot. 8-) 8-). > > > > Do you have a URL? I'm curious at least to see how they're using CAM... > > I've had to dig to find it (it is called "Spin", not "SpinOS"). > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/spin/www/ Thanks for digging this out for me; I have it bookmarked at work. If only FreeBSD supported Lina Tupple Spaces (;-) another intriging hint at a technology to get me asked for another URL)... The specific pages of interest are: http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/commands.html Click on "filesystems". Then click on "Domains". FreeBSD is not credited in the "Acknowledgements", but on: http://velvet.cs.washington.edu/spin/docs/overview.html It says: The device driver layer of x86-SPIN utilizes code from the FreeBSD Operating System. For this reason SPIN has to be booted on a machine that has a FreeBSD file system. We get this by doing a minimal install of FreeBSD on the x86 machines where SPIN will be run. In addition we have a boot loader program (salboot.com) that runs either from a dos partition on the disk or from a floppy. For historic reasons x86-SPIN needs to be built on a Linux machine. It may be possible to build x86-SPIN in a different posix environment but we have not attempted this and couldn't provide help if you ran into problems. In order to build the FreeBSD portions of SPIN on Linux, some cross development tools are required. Sources for these tools are available as a single file (bsdtools.tar.gz) here at our site. Terry "The Human AltaVista" Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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