Re: Initial POWER9 port of GNU Mach

[Tobias Alexandra Platen]

On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 08:07 +0000, Damien Zammit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 17/10/23 3:10 am, Tobias Alexandra Platen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2023-10-16 at 02:39 +0000, Damien Zammit wrote:
> > > I dont think that is correct. I often use -kernel flag with qemu
> > > to
> > > boot gnumach on i386.
> > > I think it supports multiboot so you may need to add some startup
> > > code to your ppc port?
> > Unfortunately I was unable to produce a multiboot kernel, as the
> > linker
> > failed. I have a workaround to run some parts of the kernel in
> > userspace, it is similar to the darlingserver:
> > https://docs.darlinghq.org/internals/darlingserver/index.html
> 
> Do you need help with the linker?  What was the error?
Some PPC specific code that needs to be written, is not yet written.
I'll soon investigate whats missing. I thing I can reuse 90 of the
existing PPC OSFMK code (not the one from Apple).
> It would not be as useful to have gnumach running in userspace as
> having it run on bare metal.
> 
> Damien
>