henry@ginger.sri.com (Henry A. Pasternack) (03/13/90)
I would like to port Minix to a generic 68020 machine, using the Sun as a development system. If I buy the source to Atari Minix, is there any way of getting it into a Sun without an Atari computer? Is there any way of getting the ST source on a Unix compatible medium? Enquiring minds need to know. -Henry
cyliax@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax) (03/14/90)
In article <10061@unix.SRI.COM>, henry@ginger.sri.com (Henry A. Pasternack) writes: > > I would like to port Minix to a generic 68020 machine, using the > Sun as a development system. If I buy the source to Atari Minix, is > there any way of getting it into a Sun without an Atari computer? Is > there any way of getting the ST source on a Unix compatible medium? Henry, Probably the easiest way to do it is to borrow an Atari and upload the sources to your Sun using kermit or Xmodem, after you uncompress/unarchive them. Otherwise you will have to find a machine with 3.5" disk drive that can read the Atari floppies (Sparcstations, Sun3/80 or some PC), and then write some utilities to read Minix filesystem under SunOS. After extracting all the archives from the Minix-ST disks, you will need an archiver on the Sun that can read Minix *.a archives to unpack the sources. Borrowing a atari is probably the easiest/fastest. BTW, I'm planning on porting it to a 68020 system as well. I'm starting my port on a Sun with gnu-C. Does your 68020 system have a MMU ? If it does, have you thought about doing a protected Minix-68k ? That's what I would eventually like to do. Has anyone else looked at protected Minix-68k ? I'm afraid that the only thing portable about it would be support for a 68851 MMU and maybe a 68881 FPU, the device drivers would be very different for everyone. The user programs should certainly be Minix-ST binary compatible. Gruss, -ingo /* Ingo Cyliax ECN, Electrical Engineering Bldg. * * cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu Purdue University, W. Lafayette,IN 47907 * * ing@cc.purdue.edu Work: (317) 494-9523 * * cyliax@pur-ee.UUCP Home: (317) 474-0031 */
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (03/14/90)
Well, I ported MINIX to a 68000 machine using a Sun as developement platform. If you can get a floppy image to the Sun, you can use the programs readfs and makefs to extract and create MINIX filesystems. But don't try this on a Sun386i since readfs and makefs depend on the host bytesex. The best thing for you is if you can find a kind ATARI soul which makes a tar-file on disk for you.