Re: Regarding the Future of ELKS
Gábor Lénárt <[email protected]>
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On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:10:55PM -0800, Royce Williams wrote: > 3. Speed. Compiling to test on an 8086 is maddeningly slow. > > Possible solution: For true 8086-only emulation, find a good free > emulator, or contact someone who has a commercial one (emu8086.com, > for example) and see if they'll cut us a break on a pack of license > for core developers. Or port ELKS to Linux user space, like UML. This helps testing the system, though does not help to test hardware drivers for example: anyway it can be a useful task both to make ELKS portable and test ELKS as a "normal" process runnable on Linux. -- - Gábor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html