From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 26 14:16:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA08116 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:16:11 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA08110 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:16:08 -0800 Received: from latte.eng.umd.edu (latte.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.15]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA07340; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 17:15:05 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by latte.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id RAA13027; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 17:15:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 17:15:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Boyd Faulkner cc: Don Yuniskis , hasty@netcom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Lites and Doom In-Reply-To: <9502262044.AA25884@olympus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Boyd Faulkner wrote: > > > > > I have a simple question: how do you build Lites with FreeBSD? > > > > Sorry, I haven't taken a serious look into the LITES server, yet > > (I'm waiting for all the dust to settle) > > > > > Do I need to get a mach kernel source tree and if so where > > > is the best place to get one ? > > > > I don't know if the LITES distribution includes the (micro)kernel > > sources; I suspect it doesn't but, rather, includes any applicable > > patches to the mk sources. I believe LITES will run on the > > RT-Mach (mk83i), CMU Mach (MK83A) and Utah Flexmach (Mach4?) > > microkernels. I'd avoid the RT-Mach microkernel as it's doubtful > > you'd need the rt enhancements/complications. MK83A can be > > anon ftp from mach.cs.cmu.edu. Don't know the status/stability > > of the Mach4 stuff, sorry. > > > Mach4 is available at jaguar.cs.utah.edu:/flexmach > WWW page at http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flexmach/mach4-proj.html > > There is a pointer to the lites page from there. > I believe the latest distribution may be broken for UFS. UK02p8. > Remy Card probably knows for sure. The patch was sinple but I don't > remember what it was. It is probably in the mail archive. > > If it is going to drop officially, soon. It is probably worth waiting > just to get compatibility and build info. > I think this is real interesting, and I'd like to continue this (I have some questions about new Mach versions) but I was wondering if there is a better place to do this, where I don't raise the [non-FreeBSD] noise level. Could you please suggest a good place? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------