jkp@sauna.hut.fi (Jyrki Kuoppala) (08/13/90)
We here at Helsinki University of Technology have Minix on a pc532 working fine. Currently it's jvh@niksula.hut.fi's board attached to a Sony workstation zelda.hut.fi and uses a HUT's disk. We have a ten or so boards working altogether in Finland (might be more now). Minix seems to work quite well. The following programs in addition to Bruce's distribution are running: - Gcc 1.37.92 (well actually snarfed from MIT a few days before 1.37.92 pre-release) - GNU fileutils (ls, rm, mv, cp etc.) - bash 1.05 (command line editing works fine, haven't tested it that much otherwise) - 4.3 Bsd uudecode (the minix version had some trouble with Sony's uuencode) - GNU diff - GNU make (I think GNU make puts all make variables into the environment, so we're having trouble with minix's arg list limitations; often we get 'exec: Arg list too long') Plans are to get GNU emacs working (it compiles now but has trouble with keyboard input; SIGIO anyone ?), also ka9q is on the work list, and gas / GNU binutils. Other GNU stuff should not be that hard. I'm planning to get together a libary to replace the Minix library (any news about jkh's collection ?). Kernel stuff which we're planning on doing / installing is symlinks, fifos, ptys, tty size structure / SIGWINCH, longer file names. Oh yes, I shuld warn you: when using the gcc 1.35 which comes with the Bruce's port, GNU make and fileutils didn't work. I suspected the libraries or the old version of gcc; then I got gcc 1.37.92 working and tried again and both make and fileutils worked just fine. So before spending that much time on debugging, you should get a new version of gcc. When I have the diffs cleaned up a little, I'll put them for anon. ftp in nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] pub/misc/pc532. //Jyrki