nfs@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) (03/10/90)
As has been noted before, the 1.5.0->1.5.3 kernel patches were never distributed on the net, so the 1.5.3->1.5.5 kernel patches are rather hard to apply. ;-) The 1.5.3 mm and fs worked with the 1.5.0 kernel, so I expected that the 1.5.5 versions would also work. Imagine my surprise when my machine wouldn't boot with a system made of kernel(1.5.0)/mm,fs,tools(1.5.5). Trying to boot in real mode hangs the machine (F1 shows init waiting for MM, MM waiting on nothing, and MM, HARDWARE, and IDLE all chewing CPU time). Trying to boot in protected mode results in a machine reset. Has anyone (other than the beta testers) got this to work? On another front, I've been trying to use the O_NONBLOCK flag when opening /dev/tty (with fs v1.5.3). The open() appears to work fine, and reading through the file descriptor doesn't block. Unfortunately, reading doesn't return anything useful - I just get an EBADFD in errno. Does this work for anybody? Norbert