🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Matthias wrote:
> And i thought that OMI would solve this problem! Having the compiler you would
> only need the new loader and the inner core of existing versions to run the
> system and wouldn't need to support Gadgets and others.

True, only the compiler and the loader have to be ported, the rest can just be
compiled. Unfortunately, compiler and loader have always contributed largely
to the effort for a port, i.e. adapting compiler and loader already makes for
a large part of a completely new version. In addition, there are some more
non-portable modules that have to be adapted.

Of course I'm not saying porting S3 is all too difficult and cannot be done.
It can and will be done in the future, just don't expect us to produce versions
for <insert your architecture here> in the next few <weeks/months/years>,
as you were used to when V4 was at its peak. In my past article, I only wanted
to show you we are a small team focused on other things than porting S3.

Erich Oswald
Institute for Computer Systems
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
oswald@inf.ethz.ch