I would advise one at a time. Big Bang changes make bisection much
harder. Pick a nice short simple file you are sure you understand,
and try it.
Be sure to always see if the behavior in qemu or vmx is the same
before and after.
Small moves.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM <tlaro...@kergis.com> wrote:
>
> What is in the Nix current 386 is available, on 9front, whether under
> /sys/src/9/pc or /sys/src/9/port.
>
> Generally 386/ -> pc/ with same filename except:
>
> 386/kbd.c -> pc/devkbd.c
>
> 386/devether.c -> port/devether.c
> 386/random.c -> port/random.c
> 386/pci.c -> port/{pci,devpci}.c
>
> What is the best Plan9 way, temporarily, for swapping progressively the
> files (after verifying and fixing what is not compatible, in the
> file or the headers)?
>
> Bind the 9front dir under, so that when a file is removed from the Nix
> sources, the 9front one is directly accessed?
>
> Or explicitely set in the mkfile the paths for the ones that can be
> replaced by the 9front ones?
>
> It would be best to do it in one shot (since this is mainly a problem
> of include files) but since I'm not sure to have
> enough time to achieve this in one slot, I'd like to have a way to do it
> progressively. Hence the question about the in-between situation.
> --
> Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com>
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