Re: 0.94 will appear soon

[aeriksson2]

Hi there,

> 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.
> 
Alright, I'll have to check those files them. Do I have to 
go to the cvs for them, or are they (for 0.94) on the web?


> > * 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.
> 
Interesting position, given that it ships with the grub source.
Who's claiming authority over it?

> > * 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?
> 
An AND elan sc400 embedded thing. It won't be released to the market.
My end goal with it is a silent (no moving parts) home router/fw for 
which
I have all the source, which will serve as printer/mail/etc server 
too...

ELAN is a quite oftenly used cpu for embedded projects, and there 
might
be a value in abstracting out the BIOS stuff and provide a framework
for arch-specifics to plug in. Any plans in this direction?

Cheers,

/Anders