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* ELIX?
@ 2009-10-09 17:21 Richard Campbell
  2009-10-09 17:33 ` ELIX? Morgan Gangwere
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From: Richard Campbell @ 2009-10-09 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4 defines and guards in newlib)?

Thanks,

-Richard Campbell.

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* Re: ELIX?
  2009-10-09 17:21 ELIX? Richard Campbell
@ 2009-10-09 17:33 ` Morgan Gangwere
  2009-10-09 18:24   ` ELIX? Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Morgan Gangwere @ 2009-10-09 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4 defines and guards in newlib)?

It vaeugly appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?



-- 
Morgan gangwere

"Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M.,
Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in
the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor.
2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93.

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* Re: ELIX?
  2009-10-09 17:33 ` ELIX? Morgan Gangwere
@ 2009-10-09 18:24   ` Christopher Faylor
  2009-10-09 19:55     ` ELIX? Dave Korn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 2009-10-09 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>defines and guards in newlib)?
>
>It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?

IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
vanishing with a *poof*.

cgf

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* Re: ELIX?
  2009-10-09 18:24   ` ELIX? Christopher Faylor
@ 2009-10-09 19:55     ` Dave Korn
  2009-10-09 20:29       ` ELIX? Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2009-10-09 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: look out, it's behind you!

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
> 
> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
> vanishing with a *poof*.

  Not /entirely/ vanished:

       http://sourceware.org/elix/

... but not updated in a looong time.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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* Re: ELIX?
  2009-10-09 19:55     ` ELIX? Dave Korn
@ 2009-10-09 20:29       ` Christopher Faylor
  2009-10-09 20:43         ` ELIX? Dave Korn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 2009-10-09 20:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
>> 
>> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
>> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
>> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
>> vanishing with a *poof*.
>
>  Not /entirely/ vanished:
>
>       http://sourceware.org/elix/
>
>... but not updated in a looong time.

Well, no.  It obviously didn't entirely vanish or people wouldn't be
asking why it was in newlib.

I asked Jeff Johnston if I could delete it from newlib once and he
told me that it still had some use.  I don't remember what that was
though.

cgf

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* Re: ELIX?
  2009-10-09 20:29       ` ELIX? Christopher Faylor
@ 2009-10-09 20:43         ` Dave Korn
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2009-10-09 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:10:22PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Campbell <ulvester@yahoo!> wrote:
>>>>> Can anyone give me an explanation (or just a link, google is not
>>>>> helping me) to what ELIX is (as in the ELIX level 2, ELIX level 4
>>>>> defines and guards in newlib)?
>>>> It vaguely appears on the horizon as something thats used by redhat
>>>> under Newlib -- apparently its a check-bound system?
>>> IIRC, elix was an early aborted foray into an embedded version of linux
>>> which used newlib as its libc.  I remember it being mentioned a lot when
>>> I was at Cygnus/Red Hat and then, as with many projects at Red Hat,
>>> vanishing with a *poof*.
>>  Not /entirely/ vanished:
>>
>>       http://sourceware.org/elix/
>>
>> ... but not updated in a looong time.
> 
> Well, no.  It obviously didn't entirely vanish or people wouldn't be
> asking why it was in newlib.
> 
> I asked Jeff Johnston if I could delete it from newlib once and he
> told me that it still had some use.  I don't remember what that was
> though.

  Yeh, I remember that thread.  I never knew there was a homepage and a spec
document kicking around though.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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