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Issue1043

Title bios0sio
Priority Status chatting
Superseder Nosy List swildner
Assigned To Topics

Created on 2008-07-04.20:16:05 by swildner, last changed 2008-07-04.20:22:02 by dillon.

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msg4836 (view) Author: dillon Date: 2008-07-04.20:22:00
:>>
:>> While trying to get DragonFly running on my pcengines router box (an AMD
:>> geode Soekris-like box) I noticed that DragonFly's boot0 loader doesn't
:>> support a COM console. The patch below adds support from FreeBSD.
:>>
:>> If no one objects, I'd like to commit it.
:> 
:> Btw, the patch should change the sha1 sum of the generated binary when 
:> compiled without -DSIO, so I think it's safe to commit.
:
:Arg, "should NOT".

    The patch looks ok but I don't understand the bit about the sha1
    hash.  If the binary winds up being different, the sha1 hash is going
    to be different.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>
msg4835 (view) Author: dillon Date: 2008-07-04.20:18:01
:He meant that he tested that only by defining SIO you'll get the 
:bios0sio changes.
:
:Sascha

    Ah, ok :-). 

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>
msg4834 (view) Author: swildner Date: 2008-07-04.20:16:02
He meant that he tested that only by defining SIO you'll get the 
bios0sio changes.

Sascha
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