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From: figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix ST 1.5.0
Keywords: minix, atarist
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.012337.20707@max.sunysb.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 01:23:37 GMT
Sender: Francisco Figueirido
Reply-To: figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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In article 1304 Jwahar Bammi writes (concerning writing directly to
/dev/mem)
> Not a good idea. Incorporating the screen mods into your present
> kernel is fairly trivial (the origonal posting from eric smith gave
> the diffs against the normal St kernel).

I agree with this. What I would like is that the screen driver become
part of the standard distribution of minix for the ST. As far as I see
now there are two distributions (maybe more?): 1.5.3 (although I
haven't seen kernel diff's posted yet) and the gnukernel. I would like
to know whether they are going to merge in the future or we have to
choose which path to follow. Personally I would like to have some of
the drivers in the gnukernel (midi, screen, faster rs232) incorporated
into the standard distribution, but I am sure the people involved have
given much more thought to this than myself so I would appreciate any
clarification to this point. 

Another thing: I compiled the commands for 1.5.3 and there were only
three problems, which I haven't seen mentioned on the net: login.c 
didn't patch (the .cdif was far larger than the original!), mkdir 
and rmdir didn't work (they are owned by root and setuid). I noticed
that the new sources were much smaller than the older ones.

I tried ps but it complained that it couldn't read some kernel tables
(I was root). Is this because it only works with the 1.5.3 kernel? 
If so I will wait till Frans Meulenbreoks posts the new diff's.

As always, thanks for your replies.

	Francisco Figueirido