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Re: 0.94 will appear soon
From: |
aeriksson2 |
Subject: |
Re: 0.94 will appear soon |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:29:16 +0100 |
Hi there,
> On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:15, address@hidden wrote:
> > * Is there a (preliminary) list of changes since 0.93?
>
> See NEWS, ChangeLog, CVS log messages, etc.
>
Alright, I'll have to check those files them. Do I have to
go to the cvs for them, or are they (for 0.94) on the web?
> > * I just stumbled on this code (in 0.93), netboot/timer.c.
> > -----------------------------------------
> > unsigned long currticks(void)
> > {
> > static unsigned long clocks_per_tick;
> > unsigned long clocks_high, clocks_low;
> > unsigned long currticks;
> > if (!clocks_per_tick) {
> > clocks_per_tick = calibrate_tsc();
> > printf("clocks_per_tick = %d\n", clocks_per_tick);
> > }
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > Shouldn't clock_per_tick be inited to zero? If so, is that fixed in
> > the new version?
>
> This code is not used in GRUB actually. So I don't care.
>
Interesting position, given that it ships with the grub source.
Who's claiming authority over it?
> > * I've had to knock out a couple of BIOS calls from the asm.S file
> > and, where needed replace with my own code. Would patches along the
> > lines of not relying on the BIOS for some stuff, and/or support for
> > other arches be interesting (for future releases, of course!)?
>
> What kind of hardware do you work on?
>
An AND elan sc400 embedded thing. It won't be released to the market.
My end goal with it is a silent (no moving parts) home router/fw for
which
I have all the source, which will serve as printer/mail/etc server
too...
ELAN is a quite oftenly used cpu for embedded projects, and there
might
be a value in abstracting out the BIOS stuff and provide a framework
for arch-specifics to plug in. Any plans in this direction?
Cheers,
/Anders