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david 12.16.2003

how about using the l4 kernel? easy port to powerpc and dec alpha.
if you don't like this, then say so!

david 12.16.2003

i hope my post won't kill osfree!

Yuri Prokushev 12.16.2003

L4 Kernel listed in poll. But most prefferable still seems ReactOS (and no only on
poll result). But, as always, you a free to implement osFree kernel on L4 base

david 12.18.2003

reactos will turn osfree into a windows clone. no good, but use alpha
processors! l4 a must!

david 12.18.2003

l4 pistachio, a way for os/2 to make up for lost time since os2ppc died, hope i don't
kill os/free want os/free powerpc g6 http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/ L4Ka::Pistachio
microkernel L4Ka::Pistachio is the latest L4 microkernel developed by the System Architecture
Group at the University of Karlsruhe in collaboration with the DiSy group at the University of
New South Wales, Australia. It is the first available kernel implementation of the L4 Version 4
kernel API (currently code-named Version X.2), which is fully 32 and 64 bit clean, provides
multiprocessor support, and super-fast local IPC. L4Ka::Pistachio is built from ground up
incorporating the research results of the last seven years of microkernel and multi-server
research. The code is written in C++ with a strong focus on performance and portability.
The first release includes many of today's widely used commodity architectures: Intel IA32
(Pentium and higher) Intel IA64 (Itanium1, Itanium2, Ski) PowerPC 32bit (IBM 750) Alpha
(21164) MIPS 64bit (R4000, R5000) The variety of supported architctures makes L4Ka::Pistachio
an ideal research and development platform for a wide variety of systems. Additional
architectural support for AMD64, ARM, Power4, and UltraSparc is either planned or already
in progress. The different hardware architectures are maintained by specific team members
located either at University of Karlsruhe (IA32, IA64, PPC) or at UNSW (Alpha, MIPS). The
specific contact can be found on the respective architecture page.

Yuri Prokushev 12.18.2003

Kernel can turn OS into 'windows' clone. Usually under term 'windows' ppls means
'win32 api' and nothing more. In our case will be OS/2 API, not Win32.

Yuri Prokushev 12.18.2003

Read "can" as "can't"

david 12.18.2003

hope osfree won't die. hope it will go powerpc.

david 12.19.2003

i don't want osfree to die. how about making osfree kernel independent
so one can use any nanokernel?

Yuri Prokushev 12.19.2003

We are currently talking according kernel choiche in mail-list. Look Yahoo-group
osFree. According other architectures. ReactOS also can work on different architectures.
Remember, ReactOS is only my opinion. Other has another. According making osFree kernel
independed. Currently OS/2 (and osFree) has two major kernel depended parts: doscalls API
and PM API... TCPIP also seems to be kernel depended. Only question is to make kernel
depended part as small as possible.