dwennick@polari.UUCP (don wennick) (12/14/90)
A couple of months ago, there were some postings announcing that a version of Minix with demand paged memory was available, but there was some problem with how to post (?) (if this sounds vague, it's because I foolishly didn't save the announcement :-) If I had the message, I'd email the author... 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. Presumably it will also mean that existing 386 binaries won't be running on it? Or can one simply chmem for an initial allocation, instead of the current "big enough for any eventuality" situation? Would joining the referees group be a quicker way to get it? Thanks for any leads on this. Don. -- Don Wennick | dwennick@polari.UUCP -or- donw@rwing.UUCP "subhuman bloodless leaders fed on lies and fear / and TV anchor news teams trim all we see and hear / use your head / sidestep the traps / snake through the chaos with a smooth noodle map" - Devo
cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) (12/17/90)
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 -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------