Hi all,
attached patch is a forward port of latest (2.4.17) visws patch from
sourceforge. It's mostly trivial textual merge. Builds, unteseted.
Please take a look at it.
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Thanks for doing this. I'm checking it out now on a 320.
Jesse
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:26:08PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> attached patch is a forward port of latest (2.4.17) visws patch from
> sourceforge. It's mostly trivial textual merge. Builds, unteseted.
>
> Please take a look at it.
>
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> Andrey Panin | Embedded systems software engineer
> [email protected] | PGP key: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
yeah!! I plan to port over the visw framebuffer soon. Care to try it out
once your stuff gets merged into 2.5.X.
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Andrey Panin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> attached patch is a forward port of latest (2.4.17) visws patch from
> sourceforge. It's mostly trivial textual merge. Builds, unteseted.
>
> Please take a look at it.
>
> --
> Andrey Panin | Embedded systems software engineer
> [email protected] | PGP key: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
I gave it a go on a 320 that I have here and it gets into start_kernel
somewhere, but I don't get any output on the serial console. If you'd
like to get it into 2.5, maybe we should clean it up a little first
(as well as get it working)?
When I ported the last patch forward to 2.4.17, I noticed that there
were quite a few parts that could use some work. Looking through the
patch, it seems like the head.S stuff could be done in a better way,
maybe a seperate head.S for machines that start in protected mode?
Then again, maybe the boot loader should just be changed? The
interrupt handler code also needs to be fixed up.
I haven't looked at the patch to seperate out i386 subarches yet, but
maybe that would be a good first step to abstracting away some of the
visws setup code?
Jesse
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:26:08PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> attached patch is a forward port of latest (2.4.17) visws patch from
> sourceforge. It's mostly trivial textual merge. Builds, unteseted.
>
> Please take a look at it.
>
> --
> Andrey Panin | Embedded systems software engineer
> [email protected] | PGP key: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
On Чтв, Июн 20, 2002 at 02:37:43 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I gave it a go on a 320 that I have here and it gets into start_kernel
> somewhere, but I don't get any output on the serial console. If you'd
> like to get it into 2.5, maybe we should clean it up a little first
> (as well as get it working)?
We definetely need to make it working and cleanup is a good thing too,
but i dont have a VISWS (right now) so i'm limited to trivial mergework.
> When I ported the last patch forward to 2.4.17, I noticed that there
> were quite a few parts that could use some work. Looking through the
> patch, it seems like the head.S stuff could be done in a better way,
As far as i understand VISWS fragment in the head.S does 3 thing:
1) fills page tables;
2) twiddle some bits in cr3.
3) loads gdt and idt;
My small brain can't understand why we must do 1 and 3 so early.
BTW looks like we are filling page tables many times (for every CPU).
And why we move stext and _stext for VISWS ?
These are great mysteries ...
> maybe a seperate head.S for machines that start in protected mode?
I'm doubtfull, does it worth the effort ?
> Then again, maybe the boot loader should just be changed? The
> interrupt handler code also needs to be fixed up.
> I haven't looked at the patch to seperate out i386 subarches yet, but
> maybe that would be a good first step to abstracting away some of the
> visws setup code?
2.5 with James's arch-split patch has most of VISWS code separated already.
The only big trouble that remains is VISWS hacks in parse_mem_cmdline()
function.
Also when 2.5 will realy use platform driver to support reboot, halt
and power off, it will be possible to split VISWS code from process.c.
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