From: Thomas F. <tf...@no...> - 2004-02-16 09:28:26
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dan, with this release I can now compile my own colinux-kernel and thanks for the integration of my build script. Currently this script is designed to work on top of colinux. So the current version in 0.5.3 tries to download and build the pre2. I attached a version that should compile 0.5.3, but in future it could be usefull to rewrite the script so that it simply compiles the colinux-version that it is shipped with. What directory structure would you prefer for this? What about the linux kernel build directory that is currently outside the colinux directory structure? Thanks and regards, Thomas PS.: I still have fsck errors with rootcheck=yes. I tied a manual check but this didn't solve this problem (debian 1gb-image). You wrote about an other patch, I will give this a try. > Saturday again, time for a new release. > > * Version 0.5.3 AKA "Valentine release" > * Virtual CMOS system time is now passed to Linux, you no longer > need to update the time using ntp on boot. Note that the virtual CMOS > time is GMT, so the coLinux machine needs to set its own timezone. > * cobd's devfs support was added to the Linux patch. Gentoo would work > now (based on a patch from Pat Erley). > A Gentoo root filesystem was created and released by Pat Erley. > * Fixed an unwanted termination that was discovered when devfs was > compiled > in to the kernel. > * Fixed an issue with mxml and the passage of boot parameters. > * colinux-console: Fixed the CPU utilization issue. > * colinux-console: Escape doesn't close the window now. > * coLinux RAM is configurable, using a memory element in the XML under > <colinux>, like: <memory size="64"></memory>. Minimum is 8MB, maximum > is 192MB. > WARNING: high values might destabilize Windows, because the memory is > allocated from the non-cached pool which has a maximum of 256MB > system-wide, > meaning there's less left for Windows drivers and subsystems. > * bin/cobuild.sh: Thomas Fritzsche contributed this script which > automates the creation of a cross compilation cygwin environment > on Linux. > > NOTE: > > I tested the configurable RAM option on my Windows machine, which > has 256MB of physical RAM. It worked with 64MB, and even 128MB, i.e, > half! Now that's cooperative. Of course, Windows' performance was > affected because it had less crash. > > And KDE ran much faster. > > I'm suspecting that Windows and its drivers aren't using much of that > memory pool (like 10MB or so), so you can freely use amounts like 128MB, > especially if your boxes have a lot of RAM to compensate. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAMI2inwJBIFTVIqwRAlAYAKCE6JJc9Z7eEWbRRSHhCbDJhlaQuQCfTXx5 sdkQ2wHz8feXTsSStSVi47A= =vSHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |