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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS 0.99 + patches 1 and 2 = cold boot
- Message-ID: <Z5cTwB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 13:27:46 EST
- References: <sRBswB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
- > I just patched my SLS 0.99 kernel sources with the 0.99.1 and 0.99.2 patches
- > from tsx-11 and rebuilt the kernel. I did make two source changes: I
- > changed MOUSE_IRQ from 5 to 9 in <linux/busmouse.h> (my mouse being on IRQ2;
- > IRQ5 is either COM3 or a QIC02 tape drive, which is going to cause me some
- > problems!) and swapped the CTRL and CAPSLOCK keys in keyboard.c (this under
- > control of a #define, SWAP_CAPL_CTRL).
- >
- > The resulting boot disk printed the usual "Loading..." stuff, then (at the
- > point that the SLS boot disk asks for the video mode, occasionally
- > indicating a "Wild interrupt? (IRQ9)" because MS-DOS doesn't deconfigure my
- > busmouse before a reboot...) it cold boots.
-
- I found it. Let this be a lesson to would-be kernel hackers....
-
- I had decided that I should print a warning at boot time that the kernel was
- swapping its caps-lock and ctrl keys, so I put a printk() in kbd_init(). It
- never occurred to me that kbd_init() might be called when it wasn't safe to
- call printk().
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- 0.99.2 now works flawlessly, as far as I can tell, as does the mouse. Now
- all I need is a new ps :-)
-
- ++Brandon (I think I'll stick to databases next time....)
-
- He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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