[cap-talk] Failed attempting to build ccs-xenv

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:40 +0000, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 14:34 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > I would go ahead and do a fetch -- the push occurred about noon today.
> > No point putting effort into a build where if something goes wrong you
> > are going to need to immediately pull the latest anyway.
> > 
> > I'm unclear what you are trying to get working on qemu. We routinely
> 
> All I want to do is to build CoyotOS on Ubuntu-64 and run it on QEMU
> just to see it in action, to play with it and just to see how it works.

Right now we do not support cross build from 64-bit platforms. There are
(or were) some issues in the BigNum library. We had somebody working on
those, but I haven't kept up and I do not know what the current status
might be.

> The idea is to try to get a grasp on capabilities and how they work with
> OSes. From my previous post, I want to build my own microkernel and have
> been looking into capabilities.

Luke: building a microkernel is a huge amount of work. To do it right
takes several years. Is there a reason not to collaborate on the Coyotos
kernel that is already mostly running?  I don't want to discourage your
interest for a moment, but we could use the help and you might have more
fun.

shap