[LinuxBIOS] New version of ROM posting app

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
While I appreciate the offer of the application, as I am eager to test
nearly everything new for the primary Linux BIOS project, I have one
or two questions.

Question One, Is this the same emu86, that is a project on BerliOS?
It's at http://emu86.berlios.de Also where is this vm86 available?

Question Two, I have bitkeeper installed, and it can reach itself,
that is the company's site. But how can I retrieve the code stored at
bk://mesa3d.bkbits.net/rom? I try feeding the string to bk command,
and I get an odd command back.

Has anyone on the list used bitkeeper before, other then yourself? I
am afraid I am more use to CVS, then BK.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-bounces at openbios.org
[mailto:linuxbios-bounces at openbios.org]
> On Behalf Of Jon Smirl
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:36 PM
> To: Jesse Barnes; Kendall Bennett; Benjamin Herrenschmidt;
> linuxbios at openbios.org
> Subject: [LinuxBIOS] New version of ROM posting app
> 
> I put two new posting apps, a vm86 version and emu86 version out on:
> bk://mesa3d.bkbits.net/rom
> 
> Get klibc from:
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/
> 
> Install it somewhere and build it. You need to make a link to the
> kernel source in the top level klibc directory. In this directory
make
> a link from the klibc-xxx directory to klibc.
> 
> Both projects will then build.
> v86bios uses vm86 to run the rom
> post uses emu86
> 
> Use an environment variable to pick the card to be acted on:
> export DEVPATH=/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0
> 
> vm86 is 20K non-debug
> emu86 is 40K non-debug
> 
> Currently they don't use Ben's VGA arbiter which isn't ready yet.
When
> finished these app will automatically be triggered on driver load as
> part of the hotplug process.
> 
> The source to vm86 is from the linux BIOS project where is has been
> worked on to make it substantially smaller. I like to keep everyone
on
> the same source code base if possible.
> 
> Once we get these cleaned up and working I'm hoping to get them
added
> to the klibc project. Once in klibc, klibc is schedule to go into
the
> kernel sooner or later.
> 
> They are both partially working but fail part way through the
posting
> process. I've been playing with them a couple of days and I can't
> figure out why they are failing. They are both failing for different
> reasons. Can anyone help?
> 
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at gmail.com
> 
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