[FreeVMS] Using the Bochs images?

Roar Thronæs roart at nvg.ntnu.no
Fri Nov 26 11:36:36 CET 2010


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:14:11AM +0100, BERTRAND Joel wrote:
> 
> 	I think we have to write a pager that only uses L4 syscalls. A this 
> time (I don't know if you have downloaded last snapshot), I only use 
> assembly for mutexes (one function) and for bootstrap (one function). If 
> we can write a virtual memory pager that only uses L4 syscalls, it shall 
> be easy to port kernel on new archs.
> 
> 	I don't know how actuel pager works, but if we reuse it, we have to 
> implement it in init.exe task. It's an other solution. What's your opinion ?

Sorry, but I do not know anything about L4.
Maybe you should not look at the current code from 0.3.15 for a couple of days.
You may rather look at the VMS Internals and CPU books and see how you
can fit it with L4?

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Regards,
Roar Thronæs


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