Minix Port to MIPS

[antoni...@gmail.com]

Hi,

About one year ago I made a port of Minix to a MIPS 4K platform. It
was based on version 3.1.3a of Minix, but before the introduction of
the VM Server. I made it for fun, so the code is a not clean or enough
documented to be shared just now, but with some work I believe it is
possible to port it to the current version on SVN.
I also made some cool tools, like a remote gdbserver and a elf 2 aout
file format converter.
Anyone interested?

Rgs,
A

[Maurizio Lombardi]

Cool!
Is a repository avaiable somewhere?
Don't care if the source code is not clean yet.

Maurizio Lombardi

[antoni...@gmail.com]

Hi,

The code now is higly a bit compromized with the dev. board I used.
I'm porting it to YAMS MIPS sim: http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~buenos/yams.html

Then will write a mini how to. Then I'll make it available somewhere.

The port is fully functional and very stable. For the moment, just
runing the ramfs (as there id no disk in my dev board).
It should be quite easy to port it to other embedded architectures.

Minix team, just wondering if this port could be used as a SoC
project?

Regards,
A

[Maurizio Lombardi]

I think your project is very important for an OS which aims to be used
on embedded devices where the MIPS architecture is very common.

You should contact the Minix team directly.

iPhone OS 2.2.1

On 21/mar/09, at 14:35, "antoni...@gmail.com" <antoni...@gmail.com

[Jens de Smit]

On Mar 19, 8:54 pm, "antonio.na...@gmail.com"

Dude, the community has practically been screaming for developments
like this. gdbserver has even been discussed very recently on this
group if I'm not mistaken. I'll try to check out your code soon.

Regards,

Jens

[Arun Thomas]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:35 PM, antoni...@gmail.com
<antoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The code now is higly a bit compromized with the dev. board I used.
> I'm porting it to YAMS MIPS sim: http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~buenos/yams.html
>
> Then will write a mini how to. Then I'll make it available somewhere.

That's great news, Antonio.

>
> Minix team, just wondering if this port could be used as a SoC
> project?

I think we want to focus on getting ARM support merged before we take
on other ports, at least in the context of GSoC. Maybe you could work
with Maurits Dijkstra? He's working on the ARM port. You can probably
catch him on then IRC channel (#minix on Freenode).

Arun

[Adonyas]

Cara,

gostaria de uma ajudinha...
Estou usando o minix dentro do qemu, porém, preciso de 2 coisas
1° - como faço para instalar programas?
vi que precisaria apenas digitar packman e ele me daria uma lista de
programas a ser instalado de acorde minha escolha, mas isso não
acontece, ele me apresenta mensagem de diretorio não encontrado.
1.1 - Preciso estar com o cd-rom no leitor para instalar pacotes?
1.2 - Como faço para instalar programas uma vez que fiz downloads da
net?
Tentei o camando para descompactar.
tar -zxvf 'programa'.tar.bz e não eu certo.
2 - Como faço para confgurar o rede?
2.1 - Tenha que configurar o /dev/ip?
Meu caro amigo se você conhece um tutorial que aborde essas questões,
por favor me mande um link.

Obrigado.

[Arun Thomas]

Hi Adonyas,

Please post in English. If you post in English, more people will be
able to answer your question and everyone will benefit from the
answer.

Also, it's considered impolite to hijack threads. Please create a new
thread for your question

Thanks a lot.

Arun