Re: getting oskit-based gnumach to build and boot

2002-11-06 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
where ETHERDEV is: "vortex" (for 3c59x and 3c90x), "ne", ... (complete list is in the oskit source in oskit/dev/linux_scsi.h) and SCSIDEV is: "aic7xxx", "ncr53c8xx", ... (complete list is in the oskit source in oskit/dev/linux_ethernet.h) Other way around, the com

libcons: Opening a vcons multiple times

2002-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
Hi! `libcons/vcons-close.c:37' says that ``The same virtual console should never be opened twice''. Some part of the code seem to take into account that it might be opened multiple times, though: - `cons_vcons_open ()' does not set `vcons_entry->vcons' to `*r_vcons' itself, but leaves this to

Re: libcons: Opening a vcons multiple times

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:26:57PM +0100, Wolfgang Jaehrling wrote: > Hi! > > `libcons/vcons-close.c:37' says that ``The same virtual console should > never be opened twice''. Some part of the code seem to take into > account that it might be opened multiple times, though: > > - `cons_vcons_open

configure.in patches

2002-11-06 Thread Jeff Bailey
Do you need more details on the patch to make Hurd use autoconf 2.54? I haven't seen any feedback from it. http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-October/010696.html -- When you get to the heart, use a knife and fork. - From instructions on how to eat an artichoke. signature.asc Descri

Re: Networking design proposal

2002-11-06 Thread Niels Möller
Hi again. Now I've read your description twice, and there are still a few things that I find are unclear, and there are also a few things that I think I understand, and which I believe are wrong. Olivier Péningault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You didn't understand correctly. Layer 2 translator

msync w/o MS_* constants?

2002-11-06 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
While I was trying to compile a C++ utility library it complianed about missing MS_SYNC and MS_ASYNC. It apparently tries to use msync. I guess msync is not all that helpful without these constats defined. Does anybody have an idea where I should look for them? I'll try to do some manual searchin

Re: oskit driver for i8042 keyboard controller

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:38:43AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > Included in the oskit patch is the examples/x86/i8042 test program, which > is the only thing I have used with the driver so far. Build that oskit > kernel Do you have a patch for examples/x86/GNUmakerules for that? Thanks, Marcus

Curses console client weirdness

2002-11-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I tried to telnet to my machine and then run the ncurses console client from there and it showed a number of display problems that doesn't occur when running the ncurses client locally (ie. from the vga console client): * Once the terminal is clean (after running "reset"), typing "ls" in a sh

GNU Mach 2's serial console doesn't work?

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I just tried to boot OSKit Mach with a serial console. It doesn't work anymore! Has anybody got it to work recently, or can reproduce this bug? Does anybody have two serial cables to debug this? (Else I have to buy another one). Here is what happens (in minicom with GRUB on serial console

Re: msync w/o MS_* constants?

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:20:17PM +0100, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > While I was trying to compile a C++ utility library it complianed about > missing MS_SYNC and MS_ASYNC. It apparently tries to use msync. We don't have msync and can't it implement in Mach without extending the kernel.

Re: Curses console client weirdness

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:36:51PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I tried to telnet to my machine and then run the ncurses console client from > there and it showed a number of display problems that doesn't occur when > running the ncurses client locally (ie. from the vga console client): > > * O

Re: GNU Mach 2's serial console doesn't work?

2002-11-06 Thread Roland McGrath
> I just tried to boot OSKit Mach with a serial console. It doesn't work > anymore! Has anybody got it to work recently, or can reproduce this bug? > Does anybody have two serial cables to debug this? (Else I have to buy > another one). An overpriced cable only costs 256MB of SDRAM or so. :->

Re: oskit driver for i8042 keyboard controller

2002-11-06 Thread Roland McGrath
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:38:43AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Included in the oskit patch is the examples/x86/i8042 test program, which > > is the only thing I have used with the driver so far. Build that oskit > > kernel > > Do you have a patch for examples/x86/GNUmakerules for that? -

Re: POSIX semaphore for GNU/Hurd

2002-11-06 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:06:08PM +0100, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote: > > Hello, > > While trying to compile abiword, and so gnome-vfs, on GNU/Hurd, I've > seen that it uses POSIX semaphore, that we don't implement yet. > > So, I've done an implementation of POSIX semaphores using a pthread_mutex > an

Re: GNU Mach 2's serial console doesn't work?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:51:51PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried to boot OSKit Mach with a serial console. It doesn't work > anymore! Has anybody got it to work recently, or can reproduce this bug? > Does anybody have two serial cables to debug this? (Else I have to buy

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Re: GNU Mach 2's serial console doesn't work?

2002-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:30:11PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I just tried to boot OSKit Mach with a serial console. It doesn't work > > anymore! Has anybody got it to work recently, or can reproduce this bug? > > Does anybody have two serial cables to debug this? (Else I have to buy > >

Re: console / vga --glyphs option was:Curses console clientweirdness

2002-11-06 Thread David Walter
Marcus: I don't know if this was the type of thing you had in mind for the glyphs option? I was digging around in the console code for something else after reading this thread, I've given it minimal testing. It seems to work for the application I had seen the 8 colors issue come up. 2002-11

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