Re: oskit-mach

[Igor Khavkine]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> I tried old version of both oskit-mach and oskit (Jeff suggested me that on
> irc), oskit-mach works almost with version 20000505 and with version 20000901
> I get IRQ probing problems. Oskit-mach linked with oskit-20000505 doesn't
> understand root=hd0s11, if I try root=hda5 serverboots it says the following:
> "Can't open server boot script /dev/hda11/boot/server.boot : Inappropriate
> file type or format."

I checked out oskit-mach from CVS and linked it with oskit-0.97.20010214
that I got from the debian archive. It boots and seems to work. It
recoginses everything and even gets to starting up the system servers.
However it panics somewhere inside the Linux tulip-driver.

> I've got 2 bugfixes for oskit-mach too. The first doesn't set the flag
> DC_NO_ONLCR for the console, because it only fucks up the console output.
> There should be a carriage return when you have a newline. The second removes
> a page fault error in oskit_linux_dev_init at address 0x104 (to get
> information from the bios I guess). trunc_page(subcode) returns 0 when the
> address is smaller than PAGE_MASK (0xfff) and generates a panic. I don't know 
> what the idea about that check is, but it works when I remove it.

I've always supposed that Roland didn't include the DC_NO_ONLCR flag on
purpose, if not I hope he accepts your patch.

Igor