Re: [ILUG] Linux/VAX booting to a shell.

From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Mon 18 Jun 2001 - 12:01:46 IST


Project started in 1998 with Andy Phillips doing the gcc/binutils/initial
kernel, I joined around this time last year and Kenn somewhere in between
Andy and me, so in time about 6 years of life time, in total man months
I'd say much less considering if I average the time I spend working on it
over a full year it comes out about 3-4hrs a week..

Dave.

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Justin Mason wrote:

>
> Dave Airlie said:
>
> > attached below is a bootlog from the Linux/VAX port, booting up, loading
> > up busybox/uClibc sh and cat /proc/cpuinfo, from my VAXStation 3100m38,
>
> Wahey! Congrats guys...
>
> as a matter of interest, how long did it take to get to the shell prompt?
> ;)
>
>
>
> (in passing -- Kate said:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:40:46PM +0100, Gary Coady mentioned:
> > > :) Proprietary, yes! Which is quite annoying. But bizarre? I dunno, I
> > > quite like its setup - in comparison I hated qmail and blessed the day we
> > > moved to postfix...
> >
> > Read the source. You will be horrified. Anyone that doesn't use any
> > system header files, just to avoid using autoconf is messed up.
>
> bzzzt! It's qmail that's has the scary wheel-reinvention; postfix is
> quite sensible by comparison.
>
> --j.
>
>

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person


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