Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:06:24 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS Message-ID: <199808051606.KAA10361@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199808050801.BAA21512@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 5, 98 08:01:50 am"
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Terry Lambert wrote... > > > > It looks like the SpinOS people are using LFS. They are also using > > > > CAM. They credit FreeBSD on their web pages. > > > > > > > > They need Linux to build and FreeBSD to boot. 8-) 8-). > > > > > > Do you have a URL? I'm curious at least to see how they're using CAM... > > > > I've had to dig to find it (it is called "Spin", not "SpinOS"). > > > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/spin/www/ > > Thanks for digging this out for me; I have it bookmarked at work. > If only FreeBSD supported Lina Tupple Spaces (;-) another intriging > hint at a technology to get me asked for another URL)... > > The specific pages of interest are: > > http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/commands.html > > Click on "filesystems". > > Then click on "Domains". > > FreeBSD is not credited in the "Acknowledgements", but on: > > http://velvet.cs.washington.edu/spin/docs/overview.html > > It says: > > The device driver layer of x86-SPIN utilizes code from the > FreeBSD Operating System. For this reason SPIN has to be > booted on a machine that has a FreeBSD file system. We get > this by doing a minimal install of FreeBSD on the x86 machines > where SPIN will be run. In addition we have a boot loader > program (salboot.com) that runs either from a dos partition > on the disk or from a floppy. I looked around the web site, and I even downloaded the source. It looks like they're using FreeBSD kernel sources circa late '96 or early '97. If they're using a CAM implementation at all, it must be DEC's CAM implementation when they run on the Alpha with DEC UNIX. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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