rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) (08/08/90)
If you are aware of a gdb port for the RT (AOS), or a planned port of 4.3-Reno, could you please drop me a line? Thanks, rayan@CAnet.CA
jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) (08/08/90)
In article <90Aug8.002720edt.7796@neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes: >If you are aware of a gdb port for the RT (AOS), or a planned port of 4.3-Reno, >could you please drop me a line? I've been working on and off on gdb for a while now (nearly a year, but it has been a low priority project). I have something that almost works; I just got some changes from someone that I have to merge into my sources, after which it should be ready for wider testing. I don't know of any official plans for a public 4.3-Reno port to the RT. Note the 2 qualifiers there: "official" and "public". IBM has announced plans to drop support for BSD unix. The 2 biggest users of RTs (as far as I know) are CMU and MIT/Athena. CMU uses mach, and so isn't likely to work on BSD ports. Athena uses BSD on RTs, but isn't in the business of porting kernels for general distribution (we use too much restricted code) so don't expect to see any kernel port from us. Any changes we make to user code will get back to Berkeley, so I would expect later 4.3 or 4.4 releases to compile and run on the RT with the exception of the kernel. (Footnotes to above: (1) Athena has made no decision to run 4.3R or 4.4, so we make no guarantees that we will work on porting; (2) I am currently rewriting the locore code for the RT kernel because of bugs in the trap handlers; if I rewrite it entirely it might be made public, but you would still need a lot of other files to have a kernel free of IBM copyrights). -- --John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
brunner@bullhead.uucp (08/09/90)
In article <90Aug8.002720edt.7796@neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes: >If you are aware of a gdb port for the RT (AOS), or a planned port of 4.3-Reno, >could you please drop me a line? I use the 1.2 version of gdb. I've source for 3.2 and 3.5, but haven't done the work necessary to run either of these 3.x versions on the RT running IBM/4.3 (aka "AOS" or "ACIS"). Bill Catty (MIT) and others have mentioned porting the 3.5 version, I don't think that the work has been completed yet. As for a port-4.3 release, e.g., 4.3-Reno, IBM has already stated that it is withdrawing support effective 22 December 1990, and may, if in IBM's judgement it is warranted, issue a final PTM within the 3 month period following termination of support. See my announcement posting last May if you missed it. Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.