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- Chris, [regarding <9310130301.AA004bl@ro-chp.UUCP> on Oct 12]
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- > I have been trying for a day now to get as to assemble anything. Its
- [ problems deleted ]
-
- Well I managed to get gas-2.1.1 ported (by compiling to .s in bsd and then
- exporting to amiga to `as' and then back to bsd to `ld') and everything
- is assembling fine it seems...
-
- If anyone is interested and I can try and actually get gas to pass
- the testsuite (need to find program called `runtest'). And then
- pass out the binary. (I would rather not do all this but... see below)
-
- > Will NetBSD work with the GVP series 1 controller? it uses
- > the WD339C?? same # as the A3000 but without the last `A'
- [still looking for an answer to this.]
-
-
- > How hard will it be to get NetBSD to use my A2024 in 1024x800 mode?
- > what is involved? Do I need to learn how to write copper lists?
-
- I looked at the source for grf_cc it seems that a new device is needed
- I am gathering my own thoughts on how to implement this but probably
- more object oriented. ie.
-
- o blitting copper layer - call it `monitor' this layer will handle
- all the current view's low-level work.
- and hopefully provide a standard interface
- to screens.
- o screen layer - these would corispond to devices I think
- similar to tty's and then we can all have
- our friendly screens back. (front-back flipping)
- o console layer - console drivers could then be made to work with
- the screen layers. no more copper list swapping
- of lines I think. It sure is fast but inappropriate
- when multiple display modes are going to be manipulated.
-
- I think this approach will also help port other graphic applications
- like X...
-
- > And most importantly, why can I not build the kernel? I am lacking
- > only `symorder' and `strip' (I cannot find them anywhere.)
-
- I can build the kernel now. :^) ("so thats what ld.bsd was all about...")
-
-
- > I have 640M of hard drive space...
- still do. :^)
-
- I have another question now regarding emacs. I keep getting trap errors
- after running emacs for maybe 20 seconds to 3 minutes as root. As
- chopps I can't load emacs normally, sometimes it loads but Segment Violations
- soon come. Is there something obvious I can do to fix this? Or does
- it require deeper investigation? (vi for now...)
-
- Thanks.
- Chris...
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- The Royal Oak Chophouse >> Chris Hopps
- Royal Oak, Michigan >> sycom.mi.org!ro-chp!chopps
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