Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-21 Thread Philip Blundell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:11:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you run it under gdb and see where it crashes? It would be interesting to see the output of objdump -r on libbitmap.a and libpcidata.a, too. Sure, logfiles at:

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-21 Thread Philip Blundell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:11:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you run it under gdb and see where it crashes? It would be interesting to see the output of objdump -r on libbitmap.a and libpcidata.a, too. Sure, logfiles at:

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-21 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 06:14:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:11:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you run it under gdb and see where it crashes? It would be interesting to see the output of

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-12 Thread Philip Blundell
Hmm. Must be an intermittent thing. I ran it in the debugger, and it came up just fine! Ah. That's a sure sign that it's missing some cache flushing operations. But in the meantime... I can log in via gdm, and run GNOME and Enlightenment, with ripples, and transparent gnome-terminal,

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-12 Thread Philip Blundell
Hmm. Must be an intermittent thing. I ran it in the debugger, and it came up just fine! Ah. That's a sure sign that it's missing some cache flushing operations. But in the meantime... I can log in via gdm, and run GNOME and Enlightenment, with ripples, and transparent gnome-terminal, and

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Guess what... it built! (Had to split it among the two local partitions and put relatively inactive stuff on NFS.) So the patches were successful that far; they're at: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Philip Blundell
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument That looks like a good error, in the sense that I don't think it's at all related to the ELF loader. Instead you seem to have some kind of fbcon problem. I think this can happen if you are trying to start up X in a different colour depth to the one you

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: Next question: why can't I have 16-bit? fbset -depth 16 gives me the same error. I don't know. The kernel experts hang out on [EMAIL PROTECTED]; try asking them there. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: Ah, yes. You're right. If I tell it 8-bit, then it gets past that, and gets signal 4 later, after setting up the mouse. Oh well. Config and log at the same place as last time. But yes, the ELF loader might just be working... :-)

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: Ah, yes. You're right. If I tell it 8-bit, then it gets past that, and gets signal 4 later, after setting up the mouse. Oh well. Config and log at the same place as last time. But yes, the ELF loader might

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 00:48, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, out of six attempts, it has signal 4'd twice, one of those with gpm off. We used to get seemingly non-deterministic signal 4s on PPC when the cache flushing code in the loader was broken. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Guess what... it built! (Had to split it among the two local partitions and put relatively inactive stuff on NFS.) So the patches were successful that far; they're at: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Philip Blundell
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument That looks like a good error, in the sense that I don't think it's at all related to the ELF loader. Instead you seem to have some kind of fbcon problem. I think this can happen if you are trying to start up X in a different colour depth to the one you

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Philip Blundell wrote: FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument That looks like a good error, in the sense that I don't think it's at all related to the ELF loader. Instead you seem to have some kind of fbcon problem. I think this can happen if you are trying to start up X in a different

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: Next question: why can't I have 16-bit? fbset -depth 16 gives me the same error. I don't know. The kernel experts hang out on [EMAIL PROTECTED]; try asking them there. p.

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: Ah, yes. You're right. If I tell it 8-bit, then it gets past that, and gets signal 4 later, after setting up the mouse. Oh well. Config and log at the same place as last time. But yes, the ELF loader might just be working... :-)

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: Ah, yes. You're right. If I tell it 8-bit, then it gets past that, and gets signal 4 later, after setting up the mouse. Oh well. Config and log at the same place as last time. But yes, the ELF loader might

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 00:48, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, out of six attempts, it has signal 4'd twice, one of those with gpm off. We used to get seemingly non-deterministic signal 4s on PPC when the cache flushing code in the loader was broken. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, I give up. I've tried several times to build this package, and each time it's failed, because of something having nothing to do with the package itself. I got some patches together, and after a couple of early mistakes they've built just fine -- and work with -7 too. But at some

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: and 600a from debian/held-patches. No rocket science here, I just had to tweak it a bit to use the inx/outx prototypes from libc, specifically sys/io.h. The last two differ from what's there now only in line Whoa, this is dangerous

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: Do you know if these patches could help makeing the m68k elfloader work? What's the problem with the m68k elfloader, exactly? All the technology you need should already exist in binutils and glibc, so it's just an integration problem.

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: So, could someone else please take my patches and build and upload X for us? They're at: http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/311_arm_compiler_h.diff

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread philb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: No big problem, only that it does not work. Log follows (I know 4.0.2 is old, but it hasn't changed since then) XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, I give up. I've tried several times to build this package, and each time it's failed, because of something having nothing to do with the package itself. I got some patches together, and after a couple of early mistakes they've built just fine -- and work with -7 too. But at some

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: and 600a from debian/held-patches. No rocket science here, I just had to tweak it a bit to use the inx/outx prototypes from libc, specifically sys/io.h. The last two differ from what's there now only in line Whoa, this is dangerous talk.

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread pb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: Do you know if these patches could help makeing the m68k elfloader work? What's the problem with the m68k elfloader, exactly? All the technology you need should already exist in binutils and glibc, so it's just an integration problem.

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:20:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: Do you know if these patches could help makeing the m68k elfloader work? What's the problem with the m68k elfloader, exactly? All the technology you need should

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: So, could someone else please take my patches and build and upload X for us? They're at: http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/311_arm_compiler_h.diff

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread philb
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian T. Steigies writes: No big problem, only that it does not work. Log follows (I know 4.0.2 is old, but it hasn't changed since then) XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam C Powell IV writes: and 600a from debian/held-patches. No rocket science here, I just had to tweak it a bit to use the inx/outx prototypes from libc, specifically sys/io.h. The last two differ from what's there now only in line

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: If I try to debian/rules build after it fails in the middle, it seems to do a make clean or something similar which removes all of the previously-built libraries and object files. So the previous progress is lost. In the

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-10-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:11:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you run it under gdb and see where it crashes? It would be interesting to see the output of objdump -r on libbitmap.a and libpcidata.a, too. Sure, logfiles at: http://people.debian.org/~cts/x4.1/ Note, this version of

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: The new patch is at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/311_arm_elfloader.diff D'oh! Forgot about patch application order, put in as number 311 it interferes with other patches (#400 in particular) and causes the build to fail due to patch offsets. So, change of

New ARM elfloader patch

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have made a new ARM elfloader patch based on held-patches/600 and 600a. So those held patches are obsolete. A thorough reading of held-patch 612_arm_elfloader.diff indicates that too is obsolete. The new patch is at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/311_arm_elfloader.diff

Re: New ARM elfloader patch

2001-09-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: The new patch is at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/311_arm_elfloader.diff D'oh! Forgot about patch application order, put in as number 311 it interferes with other patches (#400 in particular) and causes the build to fail due to patch offsets. So, change of