[FreeVMS] More questions

[Roar Thronæs]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 07:15:18AM +0100, Guido de Jong wrote:
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> Some more questions:
> - I have not tried myself yet,  but can debug messages be printed to a
> serial line so they can be logged by qemu? Or maybe debugging using the
> serial line is an option? I am looking for an easy way to analyse crashes.

Maybe you can use a curses display for qemu?
I don't think the serial driver is working.

> - A few source files and several headers within the Linux kernel source
> tree are not actually used. Would it be OK to remove them?

Possibly.
Which ones are you thinking of?

> - The Linux kernel configuration system is still used, albeit only half. Is
> there any reason to keep this in place?

Make config is not supposed to be used.
Everything needed is now set and not supposed to be changed.
Have just not given priority to removing that part of make.

> - Would cross compiling be a solution to the gs problem? And if so, did you
> try it? I am aware that a libc port is required, but smaller ones than
> glibc are available these days and one of them might suffice for now.

Cross compile from what to what, with which libraries?
No, never tried cross compiling, nor other libcs.
Another libc with just introduce other untested problems, and other 
conventions with errno/gs.

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Regards,
Roar Thronæs