[FreeVMS] Using the Bochs images?

[LiteStar numnums]

I've done some L4 programming before; I'd be up to lending a hand, esp.
since I've some free time now, as well as a desire to have a VMS box again.
Joel, you can email me on or off list, whichever is best, and I could start
asap.

Cheers,
 -- Lites.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:08 AM, BERTRAND Joel <joel.bertrand at systella.fr>wrote:

> Roar Thronæs a écrit :
>
>  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?
>>
>
>        In a first time, I'm only trying to write a working pager without
> any VMSism inside. This pager does not use L4 concepts (except mapping from
> physical memory to virtual one).
>
>        L4 handles pagefault request and pager only returns a usable page to
> requestor. All IPC's are done by microkernel.
>
>        Regards,
>
>        JKB
>
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