[okl4-developer] Fw: okL4

[Harry Vennik]

Op 4-okt-2007, om 8:59 heeft Hal Ashburner het volgende geschreven:

>
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 12:26 +0530, jothi vasudevan nathella  
> vijayakumar
> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Can you please help us in porting L4 to bare Machine. is there is any
>> configuration for installing L4 to bare machines?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to run okL4 on the bare machine, but not successful. The  
>> build
>> configuration of okl4 is for simulation purpose. It uses serial port
>> for
>> the output. That's why the "-nographic" option has to be specified
>> when
>> using qemu. Such configuration does not work on physical machines.
>>
>> I don't know if there is an option for compiling okl4 for bare
>> machines.
>> All build configurations are written in python and scons (not having
>> much experiences with them).
>
> Hi Jothi,
> We boot OKL4 systems on hardware all the time.
> Which hardware do you want to boot on?
> Is there some reason why it doesn't have a serial port?
>
I think he tries the same thing as I'm planning to do: run an OKL4  
based system on a PC, using console I/O instead of serial port.
(Btw. I tried this already some time ago, and then I was told by  
someone on this mailing list that support for that was being worked  
on... Didn't it make it into the 1.5.2 release?)

Harry