Re: 0.94 will appear soon

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:15, address@hidden wrote:
> * Is there a (preliminary) list of changes since 0.93?

See NEWS, ChangeLog, CVS log messages, etc.

> * I just stumbled on this code (in 0.93), netboot/timer.c.
> -----------------------------------------
> unsigned long currticks(void)
> {
>         static unsigned long clocks_per_tick;
>         unsigned long clocks_high, clocks_low;
>         unsigned long currticks;
>         if (!clocks_per_tick) {
>                 clocks_per_tick = calibrate_tsc();
>                 printf("clocks_per_tick = %d\n", clocks_per_tick);
>         }
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Shouldn't clock_per_tick be inited to zero? If so, is that fixed in
> the new version?

This code is not used in GRUB actually. So I don't care.

> * I've had to knock out a couple of BIOS calls from the asm.S file
> and, where needed replace with my own code. Would patches along the
> lines of not relying on the BIOS for some stuff, and/or support for
> other arches be interesting (for future releases, of course!)?

What kind of hardware do you work on?

Okuji