Re: kernel-image-2.2.13-eb164 milo problems
On Tuesday, 8 Feb, Christian Meder wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 12:14:15PM -0800, Brimhall, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Tried these, but when milo loaded it instantly caused my screen to have very
> > colorful, random console output (lots of reds and oranges, but no useful
> > text or anything).
>
> baseline: the slink milo works for you the potato milo doesn't, right ?
> slink MILO version is (not sure) 2.0.35-c5.1
> potato MILO version is 991007.
>
Must be the new VGA initialisation code - c5.1 was built with the non-free
Digital x86 emulator, while 991007 switched to doing it messing with
registers directly. This is faster, the code is smaller, and might
eventually work on cards with very weird BIOSes where the emulator fails.
Apparently it's not as reliable as the emulator, so we should switch back,
which is a pity.
I shall see if I can build the new (c7b) MILO with the emulator - the
2.0.35 MILO/kernel code has been having troubles with the new toolchain
lately.
Nikita
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