[ros-kernel] Different Hardware Architectures

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,
--- Mike Nordell <tamlin at algonet.se> wrote:
> Unfortunately I've personally got just above zero experience with any
> PPC
> platform, and I believe to take a serious stab at such a port one
> would have
> to be at least reasonably familiar with the hardware platform and its
> chipsets. Probably lots of information can found by looking at other
> kernels, such as the mentioned Darwin, but still... not even knowing
> the
> instruction set of the target CPU would initially have a somewhat
> chilling
> effect on porting speed.
> 
> Yet, I'm personally intrigued by your proposal and will take it under
> serious consideration.

Alot of the work has been done in the Winelib port to MacOS/X. I think
it is possible to load Windows for PPC applications under WINE on
MacOS/X there just really are not any. That would give you a good start
for the asm code that is needed for the Constructor/Destructor crap I
could never get working on a Alpha port. Also the Interlocking
functions are implemented in Winelib on PPC. I dont know what other
low-level PPC asm code would be needed to get our ntoskrnl and stuff up
and going.

The big issue is just getting a Mingw and Binutils that can spit out PE
formats. Would it be possible to make ReactOS understand ELF as well
for platforms that dont have compiler support for a PE target?

Thanks
Steven



	
		
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