🚀 go-pugleaf

[ This might be of more general interest so I'm sending the answer to
the pc532 list. ]

Bdale Garbee writes:
 > > I'm working on a port for the net2 based server. It is not very far from
 > > being usable.
 > 
 > Any idea on a time frame?  

This is actually hard to say and depends on reliability expectations.
I started on the bnr2 emulation friday evening, was able to run
programs on it sunday, got signal delivery working monday, wrote new
setjmp and some other user level stuff tuesday. Yesterday I tried to
get job control and /etc/init working but didn't get very far. If I
get things working it will not take long, otherwise it will. The
problem is that I have a lot of other things that I should do so there
may be some delay. I could make the diffs available so that someone
brave enough could try playing around with it.

I built a large part of the net2 tape for the pc532 cross compiling on
a decstation. One problem is that I haven't been able to test if some
new library routines I wrote work. This makes locating problems
harder.

The 4.3 emulation works better but the user level stuff hasn't been
packaged in any way. Actually we just use a tar file of binaries we
created a long time ago. I'm not very interested in going through the
files anyways. It seems more worthwhile to work on the net2 and other
free stuff. (If USL wins we lose).

Anyways it will take some effort for you to get a build environment
done. I'm planning to make a release of the kernel files RSN so you
could then get started building that.

 > > If you still want the 4.3 ux server I would appreciate you
 > > agreeing with CMU on the distribution conditions and letting them
 > > check the licenses in any ways they want. I'll then make it
 > > available for you for ftp having an ok from CMU.

 > If we're talking about something I could try bringing up in the
 > next month or so, then waiting is quite acceptable.  If we are
 > talking about lots longer than that, then perhaps it is worth my
 > working out the license details with CMU.

If it's ok with a not so well working u*x emulation then I should be
able to provide a free one soon. To make it stable and complete etc.
will take a couple of months at least I'd think. It might be useful to
build the bnr2 server for your 386 pc if you have one so it can be
used for comparison.

	Johannes