tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (04/02/88)
I received the mods for Jim Paridis's RS-232 TTY driver and am having trouble
getting them to link together into the kernel. The problem is that asld
gives me an error message like:
main.s: 454, Too big
I've tried linking it with the new version of asld that supports the split I+D
space, but I get the same results. I've gone over the README file for the
TTY driver about a dozen times, re-done and re-compiled everything at least
twice, but I'm still stuck. What might I be doing wrong?
(Aside: My setup is an AT clone with 640K using the 640K PC version of minix,
Minix version 1.2 (about a week old), with a 1.2M floppy for disk
0 and a 360K floppy for disk 1. I've tried re-linking everything on
both floppies and have had the same results).
Thanks for any help you can give me.
- Tom Frauenhofer tfra_c56@vera.cc.rochester.edu tvf@cci632.UUCP
...!rochester!cci632!ccird3!tvfrmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) (04/04/88)
In article <5281@cci632.UUCP> tfra_c56@vera.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Frauenhofer) writes: >I received the mods for Jim Paridis's RS-232 TTY driver and am having trouble >getting them to link together into the kernel. The problem is that asld >gives me an error message like: > main.s: 454, Too big One thing that might cause the problem is lack of space in /tmp. Both cc and asld start doing weird things when space on /tmp runs out. Nowadays I always when rebuilding the kernel mount a diskette with an empty filesystem on /tmp to be sure that I have enough free space. 360K is more than enough; the ~50K you usually have free on the root file system often isn't. Of course, it may not be that at all. But I've had no problems with recompiling the kernel with the new tty driver (apart from spending two days messing with it until I discovered that 4.77MHz machines just can't handle 2400 baud no matter how much you twiddle the parameters :-(. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Todd Dubious Domain: rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu USSnail:820 Annie Court,Norman OK 73069 Fido:1:147/1 UUCP: ihnp4!occrsh!uokmax!rmtodd
ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (04/05/88)
In article <1160@uokmax.UUCP> rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) writes: >In article <5281@cci632.UUCP> tfra_c56@vera.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Frauenhofer) writes: >>I received the mods for Jim Paridis's RS-232 TTY driver and am having trouble >>getting them to link together into the kernel. The problem is that asld >>gives me an error message like: >> main.s: 454, Too big >One thing that might cause the problem is lack of space in /tmp. Both cc and >asld start doing weird things when space on /tmp runs out. Nowadays I always There is what I consider a BUG in 'cc.c'. It does not pass the '-T' (specify termporary directory) flag to asld. I fixed this by placing an "append(&ASLD_FLAGS, str);" after the "case 'T':" in cc.c. Then the "-T." in the Makefile will then be passed through to asld. Space in the current directory is another issue if you're compiling off of floppies (I've found a hard disk to be necessary for recompiling Minix). -- Glen Overby Bitnet: ncoverby@ndsuvax UUCP: {uunet, ihnp4!umn-cs}!ndsuvax!ncoverby