Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!philica!adrie From: adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX on a Sun 3/80 Message-ID: <685@philica.ica.philips.nl> Date: 10 Oct 90 09:16:31 GMT References: Reply-To: adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) Distribution: comp Organization: Philips TDS, Innovation Centre Aachen Lines: 24 In article lennox@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes: >Is there anyone out there who has managed to make MINIX run on a Sun >3/80? I would like to attempt this, and I was wondering how difficult >this task would be, and if any had been there before me from whom I >might benefit. > >Since MINIX runs on SPARCstations, I assume that it would be at least >possible! I have not yet heard of a port of Minix to the Sun 3/80. I guess, that a port of Minix to the Sun 3/80 would be a merge of Minix for the SparcStation and a 68000 version of Minix (ST). The Sun 3/80 contains a Motorola 68030, so you could borrow a lot from Minix-ST, but the boot mechanism and much of the device controllers will be the same as in the SparcStation 1. To perform such a port, you'll have to be a (software, but certainly a hardware) expert and have information on the hardware of a Sun 3/80. Also, you'll have to cross-develop Minix on the 3/80 and choose an appropriate C-compiler. Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl) Philips Innovation Centre Aachen