jnall%FSU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) (07/13/89)
Andy's announcement that he has listened to the voices of the little people (the big people?) and is indeed going to go in the direction pioneered by Bruce Evans with Minix286 gave my sagging enthusiasm a needed boost, and I attempted to do something which I meant to do sometime ago -- install Bruce's tty.c. I encountered problems. Perhaps someone has a suggestion... First I installed the new tty.c with all mods on a Minix 1.3 system at work. All works fine. So I brought home a disk, and tried to install it on my Minix286 system. I get all the right crc figures (followed the instructions in INSTALL for taking out tty.c.cdif, etc and replacing with Btty.c.cdif, etc). All crc's look good. However, doing a "make at" in /usr/minix/kernel produces an error of "_rs232 external not found" (or something similar) during the asld phase. I've tried all three variations within axmakefile of the tty choices (minix, Bruce with C-interrupts). I'm gonna keep trying, but would appreciate suggestions. (By the way, I don't seem to get an rs2.o file, which may be one of the problems. But rs232 is not used in there so far as I can tell, so I don't see how it can be THE problem.) John Nall (nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu Arpa/Inet) (p.s. that should read "Bruce with C-interupts, and without)"