11 Jul
2014
11 Jul
'14
7:31 a.m.
All, just received this from a fellow who isn't on the TUHS mail list (yet).
I've answered him about using mknod (after reading the 6e docs: we don't have
5e docs). I thought I'd forward the e-mail here as a record of an attempt to
rebuild the 5e kernel.
Cheers, Warren
----- Forwarded message from Mark -----
I hope you don't mind me asking you about compiling the unix v5
kernel. I haven't been able to find any documentation for it.
I tried this:
./mkconf
rk
tm
tc
dc
lp
ctrl-d
# as mch.s
# mv a.out mch.o
# cc -c c.c
# as l.s
# ld -x a.out mch.o c.o ../lib1 ../lib2
There was no m40.s in v5 so I substituted mch.s for m40.s and that
seemed to create a kernel and it booted but I can't access /dev/mt0.
Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks for all your work on early unix,
I thought it was very interesting.
Mark
----- End forwarded message -----