[FreeVMS] Current status?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, BERTRAND Joel wrote:

> Cory Smelosky a ?crit :
> > Hello,
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> > I've been following the status on and off and I noticed development has
> > recently resumed.  I am very happy about this and I would be happy to
> > bugtest...if I can get it to build.  I never could before.
> 
> 	I'm working on L4 itself. L4 needs to be patched to be built with a
> recent gcc compiler. Indeed, gcc 4.8 (and probably recent 4.7 as I have some
> trouble with 4.7.3...) does not inline functions that have to be inlined as
> they are called before MMU initialization.
>

Ahh.  I doubt that part will be /too/ difficult.
 
> > What's the current status of FreeVMS?  The website seems to be a bit...not
> > too up-to-date. ;)
> 
> 	FreeVMS needs some volunteers to work on some subsystems. website is
> one of the tasks, but it needs developers to write memory management also.
> 

I would love to help with development, however my programming skills are 
minimal...I'm more of a hardware guy.  I am however very interested in 
helping test.

> 	Regards,
> 
> 	JKB
> 
> 

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