[FreeVMS] FreeVMS

[BERTRAND Joël]

Le 13.06.2013 7:54, Matthew Veety a écrit :
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 1:43, BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand at systella.fr> 
> wrote:
>
>> Le 13.06.2013 0:09, Bill Pedersen a écrit :
>>> Hello, new to the list but interested…
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>> And definitely not new to VMS!
>>>
>>> How does one get information on the current state of FreeVMS. I 
>>> have
>>> visited the freeVMS.net site but find that there is a lot of
>>> incompleteness there, links that go to blank pages and such.
>>>
>>> Given the current upheaval in the VMS community I would like to 
>>> better
>>> understand this environment so as to be able to help promote it and
>>> encourage it.
>>
>> FreeVMS project was created a long time ago. First kernels (until 
>> 0.3) were derivated from Linux kernel (2.4.15 if I remember) and were 
>> monolithic. These kernels were bootable but not easely maintenable.
>>
>> 0.4 is rewritten from scratch on a L4 (like Hurd is written on a 
>> Mach kernel or MacOS X on NVU). L4 is choosen because it deos not 
>> contains unixism. It boots, it contains first memory management 
>> subroutines, but pager is missing.
>>
>> Now, FreeVMS is slepping because there is no developers. To be 
>> alive, this project need :
>> - a pager ;
>> - some drivers (disk I/O), filesystems... Some code have been 
>> written (ODS2/5 for example) for O.3 kernel ;
>> - a swapper ;
>> - some libraries (a real POSIX libc et VMS libraries) ;
>> - some contributers to write documentation and write pages on 
>> www.freevms.net.
>>
>> Goal of FreeVMS is to propose a clone of OpenVMS with a good POSIX 
>> subsystem. Microkernel (L4) is written in C++ and servers written over 
>> L4 are written in procedural C++ too. First arch is amd64.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> JKB
>
> Is development even going on still? The project seems really dead to 
> me.

Project is sleeping as it need some developers.

> Also why didn't we write a kernel ourselves?

I don't understand your question. Do you want to reuse an existing 
kernel or to write a kernel without L4 ?

JKB