Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu! ames!pacbell.com!UB.com!daver!cs.hut.fi!j...@cs.hut.fi From: j...@cs.hut.fi (Johannes Helander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: 32532 Mach port available Message-ID: <9208212317.AA18679@joker.cs.hut.fi> Date: 21 Aug 92 23:17:51 GMT Sender: ne...@daver.bungi.com (Network News) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS Lab. Lines: 47 A free port of the Mach 3.0 micro-kernel to the pc532, a National Semiconductor 32532 based single board computer, is now available. This is a first public version. Improvements are still needed in some areas and bug reports / fixes are most welcome: send them to mach-5...@cs.hut.fi. Also, this is not a complete operating system. A Un*x server is still needed to run application programs. A port of the 4.3BSD emulation along with libraries and user programs has been done and it comes up multi-user but it will not be distributed due to licensing restrictions. A version of the net2 based bnr2ss server has been done but it is not yet in a useful state. (Unfortunately also the freeness of this along with the rest of net2, most of which has been built and ported to the pc532, has been cast in doubt by the Dark Forces). The porting was done at Helsinki University of Technology by Johannes Helander, Tero Kivinen, and Tatu Ylonen as an attempt to obtain some familiarity with the Mach operating system and to get a real operating system for the pc532. Many thanks to the Carnegie Mellon Mach group for designing this superb operating system and for their openness and help. Thanks to Dave Rand and George Scolaro for designing the pc532 and making the design freely available. Thanks to Jukka Virtanen, Ian Dall, and Jukka Partanen for contributing time to this effort as well as to Bruce Culbertson and Bob Krause for the disassembler. The sources can be obtained through anonymous ftp from nic.funet.fi in directory pub/mach/pc532-src. The file pc532.MK78.tar.Z (245737 bytes) is a set of add-on files to the kernel version MK78 as distributed by CMU. Some binaries can be found in pub/mach/pc532-bin. New versions matching future CMU versions will be added when needed. Other useful sources and binaries, such as bnr2ss, libc, user programs, etc. will be added as soon as they work well enough and their uncontaminatedness has been verified. There is a mailing list mach...@cs.hut.fi for persons interested in continued development of Mach for the pc532. To be added to the list or to be removed from it, please send mail to mach-532...@cs.hut.fi. Johannes
Xref: sparky comp.sys.nsc.32k:260 comp.os.mach:1063 Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.os.mach Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!ajk.tele.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!jvh From: j...@cs.hut.fi (Johannes Helander) Subject: 32532 Mach port available Message-ID: <JVH.92Aug22021052@joker.hut.fi> Sender: use...@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Nntp-Posting-Host: joker.cs.hut.fi Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS Lab. Date: 22 Aug 92 02:10:52 Lines: 47 A free port of the Mach 3.0 micro-kernel to the pc532, a National Semiconductor 32532 based single board computer, is now available. This is a first public version. Improvements are still needed in some areas and bug reports / fixes are most welcome: send them to mach-5...@cs.hut.fi. Also, this is not a complete operating system. A Un*x server is still needed to run application programs. A port of the 4.3BSD emulation along with libraries and user programs has been done and it comes up multi-user but it will not be distributed due to licensing restrictions. A version of the net2 based bnr2ss server has been done but it is not yet in a useful state. (Unfortunately also the freeness of this along with the rest of net2, most of which has been built and ported to the pc532, has been cast in doubt by the Dark Forces). The porting was done at Helsinki University of Technology by Johannes Helander, Tero Kivinen, and Tatu Ylonen as an attempt to obtain some familiarity with the Mach operating system and to get a real operating system for the pc532. Many thanks to the Carnegie Mellon Mach group for designing this superb operating system and for their openness and help. Thanks to Dave Rand and George Scolaro for designing the pc532 and making the design freely available. Thanks to Jukka Virtanen, Ian Dall, and Jukka Partanen for contributing time to this effort as well as to Bruce Culbertson and Bob Krause for the disassembler. The sources can be obtained through anonymous ftp from nic.funet.fi in directory pub/mach/pc532-src. The file pc532.MK78.tar.Z (245737 bytes) is a set of add-on files to the kernel version MK78 as distributed by CMU. Some binaries can be found in pub/mach/pc532-bin. New versions matching future CMU versions will be added when needed. Other useful sources and binaries, such as bnr2ss, libc, user programs, etc. will be added as soon as they work well enough and their uncontaminatedness has been verified. There is a mailing list mach...@cs.hut.fi for persons interested in continued development of Mach for the pc532. To be added to the list or to be removed from it, please send mail to mach-532...@cs.hut.fi. Johannes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!daver!cs.hut.fi! j...@cs.hut.fi From: j...@cs.hut.fi (Johannes Helander) Subject: net2 stuff and bnr2ss available. Message-ID: <199211160344.AA12207@sauna.cs.hut.fi> Sender: ne...@daver.bungi.com (Network News) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS Lab. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:44:33 GMT Lines: 29 I have made first versions of bnr2ss and the net2 utilities and libraries for the pc532 available for anonymous ftp. The directory nic.funet.fi:/pub/mach/pc532-src contains the following files README XBSDSS1.tar.Z bnr2ss version one for the pc532 (based on BSDSS4). BSD1.tar.Z net2 version one for the pc532. pc532.MK78.tar.Z Mach 3.0 for the pc532. A new version will be made soon. Improvements to drivers have been made sincew the current release. In addition you need to get the rest of the net2 tape. It is available in nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/4.3bsd/net2 and probably in many places in the US and so on. I give no promises whether or not anything works, in fact I haven't tried it myself after the latest changes. After I last time tried it I have removed all files containing code with unknown origin and all contaminated code. I'm not sure the replacements work. I have cross compiled them on a decstation running Mach using gcc 2.3.1. This doesn't mean it would be easy to get them compiled. I will try to make a more mature distribution as well as a binary distribution available sometimes. To make this faster, please send fixes and improvements to mach...@cs.hut.fi. Johannes PS. The libm.a derived from 4.3BSD Reno has been removed. It is now part of BSD1.tar.Z