worsley@ditmela.oz (Andrew Worsley) (12/20/88)
From article <17124@dhw68k.cts.com>, by allan@dhw68k.cts.com (Alan Perry): > > At this point, I would be happy if Minix ran on my 386 machine at all (let > alone take advantage of all its nifty features!!). > > Are there any 386 machines that Minix runs on (I know that I, the keeper > of the compatability list, should know, but the list isn't handy)? Yes there are. We have an AST 386 machine and it runs on ours. You definitely need more than MINIX 1.1 though. We had problems with the floppy driver - DMA generating non maskable interrupt(s) which would put it into an infinite loop. The 386 produces the return address of exceptions pointing back at the faulty instruction which can make for infinite loops in early versions of MINIX. Peter Kay posted some diffs which fixed up the floppy disk <-> DMA problems. After that it mostly runs fine except for some problems which hang the kernel and I think are to do with the different exception return addresses on 386. If you want the patch mail to me and I will dig it up. Andrew Worsley ~