meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) (06/04/91)
Hi, Thanks to all who responded on the ST 1.5.10.4 upgrades. When preparing the upgrade I didn't have access to my 1.5.10.3 sources any more. I had disk problems, and the 1.5.10.3 directory was not backed up, because I decided that must likely I wouldn't need the backup, and if I would need it I could still upgrade from my own postings. Well, of course with the disk problems I lost 1.5.10.3, so I had do do the upgrade myself. By doing so I seem to have made some mistakes. commands/fixbin.sh: it could well be that I send out the wrong version. fs/main.c: the crc for fs/main.c depends on where your starting source come from. This is a real pain in the &$%#. Check the atari copyright message. I think the year in my version is 1991. Anyway, if you have a mismatched crc, just change the year (from 1991 to 1990 or the other way around) and see if the crc is becomes correct. inlcude/signal.h: I do not have any idea what causes the difference. I'll check and perhaps follow up with a complete version. include/out.h: oops. I think I made a small change after making the crc list. Just apply the fix, and ignore the crc (the fix is pretty minor). kernel/stfloppy.c: it has been suggested by Frank Breure that you should cdiff against the 1.5.10.0 version. seems like a good idea to me. See if the crc's match. I definitely diffed against an old version. kernel/stdskclk.c: strange. Frank Breure mentions that he could not get the crc's right for this file, while Bob green does not mention this file on his wrong crc list. kernel/ansi.h: not needed. forget about it. lib/other/sigset.c: not needed. forget about it. I misplaced the stuff on my disk. lib/posix/syslib.c: not needed. forget about it. lib/posix/waitpid.c: not needed. forget about it. Based upon my mail and news, I think there are no major problems. I'll wait a few weeks to see if anything more comes up, and then follow up with 1.5.10.5, which fixes the inconsistencies. Enjoy, Frans. PS: as mentioned by someone there is no list of changes After fixing my disk I went to work on 1.6, and I didn't keep a log for that. 1.5.10.4 is mainly the 1.6 kernel minus a few files which were too drastically changed. You might notice that because a few of the functions mentioned in proto.h do not yet exist in 1.5.10.4 I think the most important changes in 1.5.10.4 are: - several bug fixes. Thanks to the net who contributed several of these. - improved format program. added include files to all other commands/atari files - integrated PC and ST dmp.c files. stdmp.c is gone. - support for 12 bit high fonts. - more configurable kernel. See minix/config.h Frans. -- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@prl.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology
briant@tsltor.uucp (Brian Taylor) (06/07/91)
I would like to upgrade my ST minix to 1.5.10.4, but I only have the "out of the box" 1.5 that you purchase from PH. Could some kind soul indicate to me the best way to go about obtaining all the patches (e.g., nodak in directory foo get subdirs a b c and systematically apply them). Thanks for your help! Brian -- Brian Taylor briant@tsltor.uucp UNIX Systems Administrator (...jtsv16!tsltor!briant) Teleride Sage Ltd. (416) 596-1940