From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 23 6:32:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F0E14F92 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:32:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA88547; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:44:09 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:44:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Theo van Klaveren Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about GLIDE... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Theo van Klaveren wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > Thats right. Another gotcha with the Glide code is that it uses the Linux > > convention for outx(), i.e. outb(val, port) where we use outb(port, val). > > That had me going for an hour or two.. > > Ah-ha, thanks for mentioning that! What had me going for an hour or so > was not noticing that they didn't supply the '-c' to install, which caused > the header files to be moved OUT of the source tree on the first build > pass :) Hehe. I had that too :-) > > > > > Seriously, look at my diffs. I ran all the tests and they produced the > > same results as for Linux. I was planning to work with the folks at > > glide.sourceforge.net next year to get the FreeBSD bits integrated with > > their source base. > > That'd be a Good Thing. Seriously though, the patchwork I'm creating here > is NOT meant to be integrated in the source tree (it's _UGLY_)... I'd be > glad to help in any such porting work though. > > B.t.w. I noticed the assembly files are preprocessed with gasp piped > through to as, which generates an empty object file because gasp isn't > on my system. It also isn't in the ports. Anyone know where to get it? I added it to the -current build a couple of weeks ago when I was working on Glide. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message