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diff --git a/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn b/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c28f2d89 --- /dev/null +++ b/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +[[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]]. + |