> OK. Do you think it's better to leave interrupts entirely *disabled* until the
> Java code decides it's the time to enable them? This is an entirely reasonable
> approach, and (hmm....) I don't think it will break anything at all (hmm...,
> right?). Actually, I don't understand why I didn't do it that way in the first
> place (maybe I'm forgetting something ... wouldn't be the first time).
I thought there was some good reason for it (leaving them enable
but ignoring the clock) also, but I couldn't tell you what it might have
been.
> So, in other words, I would not be breaking an entirely "working" build for
> you...
Right. Hopefully my commit wouldn't be breaking anything for
anyone else...
> OK. Let me know when you do this ... I won't really be able to do much more
> until Thursday at the earliest. Do you think you'll be able to commit your
> stuff by then? I'd REALLY like to commit the changes both because I'd like to
> attack some of the other remaining problems, and because I'd like the sources on
> more than one disk for safety's sake.
I'll try to commit my changes sometime today. A note about the
Makefiles: -DFAST_NATIVE_CODE activates the check-native-before-lookup
code, which breaks things; -DNATIVE_CLOCK activates the code that traps
interrupt eight in the scheduler. (-DHANDLE_CLOCK still needs to be
defined in the native build if you want the clock interrupt to reach the
scheduler at all.)
> Isn't there a JVM compatibility/test suite around? I can't remember the name,
> but I seem to recall reading about it (but I seem also to recall some
> licensing/NDA issues). Anybody else heard about something like this?
I believe you're thinking about /mauve/, which, the last time I
looked at it, was more of a class-library compatibility checker than
anything else.
Finally, have you been able to find the JavaOS API specs anywhere?
The website the .pdf files point to seems to have vanished, and I can't
find anything on the Sun or IBM websites anymore.
-_Quinn
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