[Raion]

Hey Nuclear. Not really on point.

The fundraiser primarily is so that we can create a technical manual of the IRIX 5.3 kernel. From there we are going to reconstruct an IRIX compatible kernel after using the manual to verify if there's any bits that we can simply drop in from another existing open source OS. Anything that we can't will simply be recreated based on the contents of the manual.

This is not a homebrew project. I'm not working on this directly, rather I have assembled a team including people from outside of the community who I have known over the years with the primary intention of producing this quicker than simply relying on a community which has proven to lack the critical mass to come together on a coherent project at this point in time. There might be some pieces I'm able to take care of myself when the time comes but I have no reverse engineering skills myself and have mostly relied on the work of outside people helping me to say, get libfam v1 or libdisk or a mount(1) command for IRIX working.