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- From: jpuente@dit.upm.es (Juan A. de la Puente)
- Subject: Adapting Minix 1.2 for a 386
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.112640.11384@goya.uu.es>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:26:40 GMT
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- NOTE: I am posting this for a friend. Please reply directly to him
- <jvila@aii.upv.es>
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- I would like to know if anyone has tried to patch Minix version 1.2
- to make it run on a 386 computer.
-
- We do not want to move to the 1.5 version (which is an obvious solution)
- because we use Tanenbaum's book (based on earlier versions of Minix)
- for lecturing. The problem is that our lab is equipped with 386 computers,
- which get crazy with the 1.2 version.
-
- Our interest is to introduce as few changes as possible in Minix 1.2
- to make it run on a 386, but keeping it simple and not too different
- >from the book stuff.
-
- My first attempt to fix the problem has been to introduce
- the floppy and winy drivers from version 1.5 into version 1.2.
- The results: floppy keeps waiting forever an interrupt wich never occurs,
- while the seventh attempt to program the controller with the proper set
- of parameters is taking place.
-
- Any suggestion on an appropiate version of MINIX to our needs or any
- hint about how to fix version 1.2 will be highly appreciated.
-
- I DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MINIX NEWS GROUP, SO PLEASE, SEND YOUR REPLIES
- TO:
-
- jvila@aii.upv.es
-
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- Juan Vila
- Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
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