In article <1993Jul17.010532.23229@leland.Stanford.EDU> yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) writes:
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>In article <1993Jul16.230042.3058@Seagull.RTD.COM> rawn@Seagull.RTD.COM (Rawn Shah) writes:
>>
>>It would be a good direction for Linux. I agree most whole heartedly. The
>>problem would be to port the Linux kernel to a RISC architecture such as the
>>Alpha. RISC architectures with their windows of registers cause more
>>difficulties than the "small" set of registers that you have on CISC
>>architectures. 
>
>RISC design doesn't specify windows of registers.  The SPARC architecture
>uses register windows, but last I knew, the MIPS architecture did not.
>
>Is gcc ported for the alpha yet?  That would be the first needed step.

There seems to be a CD around for Alpha AXP under OSF/1 which contains,
amongst others, the gcc compiler. This means however you have to use OSF/1
for cross development.

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>Going from 32->64 bits might cause some problems in addition to all
>the others of moving it to a new architecture.  A very ambitious
>project indeed.
>
>- Yonik Seeley
>yseeley@cs.stanford.edu


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