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In article <90Aug8.002720edt.7796@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
	 rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>If you are aware of a gdb port for the RT (AOS), or a planned port of 4.3-Reno,
>could you please drop me a line?

I've been working on and off on gdb for a while now (nearly a year, but it
has been a low priority project).  I have something that almost works; I just
got some changes from someone that I have to merge into my sources, after which
it should be ready for wider testing.

I don't know of any official plans for a public 4.3-Reno port to the RT.  Note
the 2 qualifiers there: "official" and "public".  IBM has announced plans to
drop support for BSD unix.  The 2 biggest users of RTs (as far as I know) are
CMU and MIT/Athena.  CMU uses mach, and so isn't likely to work on BSD ports.
Athena uses BSD on RTs, but isn't in the business of porting kernels for
general distribution (we use too much restricted code) so don't expect to see
any kernel port from us.  Any changes we make to user code will get back to
Berkeley, so I would expect later 4.3 or 4.4 releases to compile and run on
the RT with the exception of the kernel.  (Footnotes to above: (1) Athena has
made no decision to run 4.3R or 4.4, so we make no guarantees that we will work
on porting; (2) I am currently rewriting the locore code for the RT kernel
because of bugs in the trap handlers; if I rewrite it entirely it might be
made public, but you would still need a lot of other files to have a kernel
free of IBM copyrights).


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