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diff --git a/Mach/OskitMach.mdwn b/Mach/OskitMach.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index c28f2d89..00000000 --- a/Mach/OskitMach.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -[[toc ]] - -* [[OskitMachStatusList]]: Status and TODO list (<a href="http://packages.debian.org/gnumach" target="_top">deb status</a>) </li> -* [[OskitMachPatches]]: Bleeding edge patches </li> -* [[OskitPatches]]: Useful patches for the OSKit </li> -* [[BuildingOskitMach]]: How to build your own GNUmach kernel </li> -* [[RemoteDebugOskitMach]]: How to use gdb to remote debug the GNUmach kernel </li> - - -## <a name="About"> About </a> - -OSKit-Mach began as a branch of the GNUMach 1.2 kernel, but since the release of GNU Mach 1.3, OSKit-Mach has been merged as the new GNUMach 2.x mainline. The [[history]] page tells a more interesting story including other operating systems who use Mach in their kernels. - -GNU Mach 2.0 makes use of the drivers provided by [the OSKit](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/) from [the Flux Research Group](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/). The OSKit provided a neat driver base where both [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] and Linux (2.2.12) drivers are made available to [Mach](http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html) and thus the Hurd. However, OSKit isn't maintained anymore. - -## <a name="Status"> Status </a> - -The OSKit-Mach version of GNUmach is today (2005) more or less defunct. Nobody -is working on it. Few people ever got it running, and by now there are also -problems building with recent toolchains. Instead, the Hurd developers now -concentrate on completely different microkernels (Coyotos being the current -favourite), as well as on improving the original GNU Mach 1.x codebase. (See -also [[microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects]].) - -The [[mailing_lists]], or the [[IRC]] is, like always, the best source of more -current information. - -There also exist other efforts: - -* [OSKit and OSKit-Mach PPC Port](http://es.gnu.org/~jemarch/ppc-oskit/) - Maintained by [Jos� Marchesi](mailto:jemarch AT gnu DOT org) - -* [OSKit-Mach Alpha Port](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnumach-alpha/). - This work has been integrated into the actual OSkit cvs tree at utah. - -## <a name="Building"> Building </a> - -First you need to get the latest OSKit release and, preferrably, the latest CVS version of GNUmach. Take a look at the following [tutorial](http://www.etherhogz.org/doc/oskit-mach.html) to get started. Or the locally kept version, [[BuildingOskitMach]]. - -## <a name="Starting"> Starting </a> - -You start Oskit-Mach almost the same way as the old 1.x version of GNUmach. Using [[Hurd/GrubNotes]] an entry can look like this: - - title GNUmach 1.90 (CVS) - root (hd0,1) - kernel /boot/oskit-mach.gz root=device:hd0s2 -- - module /hurd/ext2fs.static \ - --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \ - --host-priv-port=${host-port} \ - --device-master-port=${device-port} \ - --exec-server-task=${exec-task} \ - -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) - module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) - -_Remember_ to ensure that there are no trailing spaces after the backslashes on the lines above if you copy-paste this into your menu.list file. - -## <a name="Bugs"> Bugs </a> - -We have bugs, just like any other software product. To get around the more nasty ones you can apply the unofficial patches found on - -* [[OskitMachPatches]] - -## <a name="Debugging"> Debugging </a> - -See Igor Khavkine's, [i\_khavki@alcor.concordiaNOSPAM.ca](mailto:i_khavki@alcor.concordiaNOSPAM.ca), excellent help to [remote debug oskit-mach over a serial line](http://www.etherhogz.org/doc/oskit-boot.txt), or the local [[RemoteDebugOskitMach]]. - |