Re: oskit-mach

[Roland McGrath]

> 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.

Great!  I suggest that everyone use this oskit version then.  I don't think
there have been any changes in newer oskit versions that are importantly
useful to oskit-mach, and obviously there have been some changes that broke
it.  So people should just use the old oskit until I am able to debug the
problems with the new one.

> However it panics somewhere inside the Linux tulip-driver.

Well, that's too bad.  Can you try some oskit example kernels that use your
network hardware first?

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

That's right (I even added that flag to the oskit just for this use).  You
don't want the oskit doing anything funny to the characters going to your
serial or vga console from the Mach "console" device, .  The gnumach
"console" device does not convert CR->CRLF either.  That's for the userland
code to do; that's term once it's going, and the libc/mach/devstream.c
for the early output in the boot filesystem and init.