Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: other platforms and Linux compile... | Date | Wed, 06 Aug 1997 22:35:33 -0000 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>After that you get to port glibc, user space and X11 - thats probably >the harder part.
Doing a new port of glibc is actually fairly easy (and like the kernel, getting easier as more are done). Like you say, each new port solves a few more weird cases, to the extent that you can almost just mix and match the bits you need from other architectures these days.
Once that's working you should be able to get your Red Hat disk, `rpm --rebuild' everything and hey presto, more-or-less instant user space.
X11 may or may not be more difficult. If your video hardware is standard (like you have a PCI backplane and use off-the-shelf cards) it's probably pretty simple. If you're faced with something like a Sun and have to reverse engineer the board then write a driver from scratch it'll be a bit more of an undertaking.
p.
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