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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix '286 patches (problem)
Summary: It works for me!
Keywords: minix 286 80286 patch
Message-ID: <17649@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 03:47:48 GMT
References: <589@sumax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <589@sumax.UUCP> woodman@sumax.UUCP (David Woodman) writes:
>I almost had the '286 patches done and was compiling build & fsck
>when I received an 'out of memory' error on fsck.c
> It's 2 in the morning, If I am overlooking something, please forgive
>me otherwise, what next ?

I had no trouble compiling build and fsck after applying Bruce's diffs.
Where did you get the error exactly?  From asld, the compiler, or make?
I've got the 1.2 compiler; I suppose those with the 1.1 compiler might have
more trouble.

I had a bit of trouble with the kernel patches because I had previously
installed Bruce's replacement tty driver.  It turns out that I had to back
up to the vanilla 1.3d versions of clock.c, const.h and main.c, then apply
the new diffs.  Same for device.c and pipe.c in fs.

Also, patch kept running out of memory trying to create the new file
klib88.x (which Bruce sent as one big patch).  This was with 600K+ free on
/tmp.  I ended up running it through sed, then hand editing to remove the
diff header.

You have to take care to correctly set up kernel/axmakefile; there are
several possible options, you must uncomment the proper ones for your
setup.

Unfortunately, Bruce's rs232 io doesn't work for me yet (it didn't work
before the pmode diffs, either).  Specifically, when using term to talk to
my external modem, I can see that it is sending chars just fine, and the
modem is echoing chars back.  But term never sees the echoed chars; it
hangs on the first read from the tty port.  Anyone seen a similar problem?

Tty problems aside, it sure is wonderful to see the following on startup:

   Memory size = 2560K   MINIX = 125k   RAM disk = 720K   Available = 1715K

I think we owe Bruce Evans a standing ovation.  THANK YOU, BRUCE!

Jaime
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