Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:21:43 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: ken@plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS Message-ID: <19980806222143.A17976@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199808050801.BAA21512@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:01:50AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804230635.7284B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> <199808050801.BAA21512@usr02.primenet.com>
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On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:01:50AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 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.
Sounds a bit sick ;-)
We should make a FreeBSD port ;-))
--
Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ?
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