Re: Building Pistachio on amd64

Hello Jan,

Your advice was perfect.  I grabbed the latest package from the  
Mercurial repository and I'm now able to build and run the kernel.   
It booted up with GRUB on the first try.   I see the memory info and  
two spinners in the upper right corner.  There were no problems at  
all building on an amd64 box, and a laptop at that.  Everything was  
very straightforward.

My interest in L4Ka::Pistachio is as a hobbyist.  I've been tinkering  
with operating systems for many years, mostly Linux, and I'm  
interested to see how L4 kernels work.  My specific interest is in  
general purpose operating systems and I chose L4Ka because it seemed  
the least specialized of all the active L4 variants.  Other L4  
kernels seem to lean toward distributed, embedded, or other  
specialized uses.

I look forward to learning L4Ka::Pistachio and contributing where I can.

Thanks for the help.

--Jeff

On Feb 11, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Jan Stoess wrote:

> Hello Jeff,
>
> L4Ka::Pistachio Version 0.4, released in 2004, has become outdated.  
> I'd
> suggest you try the development snapshot from our Mercurial  
> repository. Find
> it at
>
> http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/download.php
>
> Mercurial also provides packaged distributions, just click  
> the .zip/.bz2/.gz
> links on the page. We've also set up automatic build tests, at
>
> http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/buildstatus/hg.php
>
> We don't have automatic tests for building amd64 on amd64 boxes,  
> though,
> everything is cross-built on ia32 machines. Let me know if you run  
> into
> problems there or not.
>
> Best Regards,
> -Jan
>
>
>
>
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> Jan Stoess
> System Architecture Group
> University of Karlsruhe
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