From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Feb 3 16:21:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00340 for emulation-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00326 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id KAA07935; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:50:59 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702040020.KAA07935@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: doscmd vs ??? In-Reply-To: from Jonathan Lemon at "Feb 3, 97 12:21:43 pm" To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:50:58 +1030 (CST) Cc: suttonj@interconnect.com.au, emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying: > > > > Sean was working on a 2.1.6 system, so I would think that you wouldn't > > have too much trouble fitting his patches to your kernel. Just be aware > > that they _don't_ work properly, and unexpected things can wedge your > > system tight. > > The initial changes that I made to Sean's patches were fairly trivial; I'm > not even sure what the main showstopper was. I suspect it may have had > something to do with the sigcode trampoline in locore.s; in -current, the > end of the trampoline is now aligned on a longword boundary, while it > wasn't earlier, according to the vm-960919 diffs. Hmm, that's interesting. > At the moment, I'm attempting to eliminate the private VM86 return, and > have everything exit in the normal manner. I'm most of the way there, > and hope to finish up this week. That's great! > Jonathan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[