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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Experimental 386 Minix - Is It Coming Soon?
Keywords: Demand paged memory minix
Message-ID: <3471@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 16 Dec 90 21:54:13 GMT
References: <2884@polari.UUCP>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <2884@polari.UUCP> dwennick@polari.UUCP (don wennick) writes:

>Is this coming any time soon, whether via archives or the net? This is
>something I'd REALLY like to get ahold of, although I know it means
>Yet Another Recompile.

If you have a 386, running with Bruce Evans' patches for the interim is a good
idea. Yet another recompile is no big deal with bcc. It only takes a handful of
minutes. Not enough time to get a cup of coffee... with ack you have enough
time to cook dinner :-)

Those hacking the OS will find bcc and shoelace takes a lot of the drudgery out
of the compile and test cycle. I have set up /etc/nconfig on the hard disk
which reads in the kernel components from /tmp (on the hard disk) and sets the
root file system to /dev/at0 --- to avoid scribbling on the hard disk with
experimental systems.

In this environment, testing a new kernel typically requires:

cd /usr/src/{kernel|mm|fs}
vi broken_part.c
make # writes .out file to /tmp
shutdown;exit
<< reboot >>
<< select minix partition >>
configure /etc/nconfig
boot

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146
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