Re: [B2-devel] patches for BasiliskII/SheepShaver Linux NetDriver source

[Alexei S. <ale...@gm...>]

All patches applied. Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Joel MAURAS <jo...@wa...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I managed to install a full new Gentoo Linux on my laptop and eventually came to
> the SheepShaver stuff to replace my old WallStreet by an emulator so I can
> continue to work with the documents created previously.
> I fell upon the last problems published while building SheepShaver and NetDriver
> on a Linux 2.6.31 kernel with Gentoo distribution :
>
> $ uname -srvmpio
> Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #6 SMP Wed Mar 17 20:03:01 CET 2010 x86_64 Intel(R)
> Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> And try my best to have it going on getting help from basilisk-devel list. Once
> the whole thing worked I can have Mac OS 9.04 from an X window on my Linux box
> and get access to the Internet into the emulator through NetDriver and a wired
> or wireless connection.
>
> from the official SheepShaver website I put BasiliskII and SheepShaver side by
> side into the same root directory.
>
> - The first patch "SheepShaver_Makefile.patch" let makefile build relatives
> links between SheepShaver and BasiliksII so they can be moved anywhere into the
> file system as long as they stay side by side without having to rebuid the
> links. This patch is not mandatory.
>
> - the second patch "sigsegv.patch" is needed with new GCC as it had become too
> smart and trigger an error on range address when a page fault was traped.
>
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.1, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.4
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> We need to slice the binary created to be sure the address of the trap is within
> the test addresses. This is why each trap occur between two case labels and a
> new section of assembly code is set in between.
>
> - The third and forth patches "sheep_net.patch" and "NetDriver_Makefile.patch"
> come from "Spoelstra, Howard" <How...@ou...> witch talk of them on the
> Basilisk-devel list. Also the fact that locking kernel is no more allowed.
>
> If someone is interested by the four of them they are bind for convenience in
> "all_4_sheep.patch" that can be applied from the directory containing BasiliskII
> and SheepShaver loaded from CVS :
>
> $ patch -p0 < all_4_sheep.patch
>
> To load the driver I need the next commands on my system (only root can set
> them, so I created a script launched at startup) :
>        modprobe sheep_net
>        chmod o+rw /dev/sheep_net
>        sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
>
> Greatings,
> Joel
>
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