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zeta-0.5 released : port of linux to the virtual Zeta architecutre

From:  Thomas Capricelli <orzel@freehackers.org>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  zeta-0.5 released : port of linux to the virtual Zeta architecutre
Date:  Tue, 5 Sep 2006 00:15:06 +0200
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Hello,

	Some people might be aware of Zeta linux, an academic project of creating a 
virtual architecture, and porting binutils+gcc+linux to it. There have been 
already  three releases this year (0.3, 0.4 and today, 0.5).

	Quick outplot :
	* Graphical interface for the emulator, with a (simple) page tables browser.
	* the kernel almost boots up to the start of a userspace process.
	* use binutils-2.17, gcc-4.1.1 and linux-2.6.17.

	Everything you want to know about it is on http://orzel.freehackers.org/zeta

	This is of interest mostly to people who, like me, want to know more about 
the toolchain internals and linux core stuff internals (== not drivers, 
subsystems or filesystems).

	The next release will focus on writing the handbook (documentation, howto's, 
specifications..).

best regards,
Thomas
-- 
Thomas Capricelli <orzel@freehackers.org>
http://orzel.freehackers.org/

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