Re: [Etherboot-developers] Porting report

[Yannis M. <gm...@te...>]

Hi Eric,

>currticks() appears not to be working.
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Ok I found the problem, I have commented out in the await_reply function 
a check that is performed to see if the ESC is pressed and I have 
substituted with something else ...:-(
Now it is ok ...

Before finishing the porting in the 5.0.8 version I have left 2 more 
open issues.
1) I did not manage to implement the  dosum in assembly. But I have seen 
from the 5.1.x that is implemented in C so there is no need to move-on 
with this.
2) Currently the COFF loader loads only the .text and .data sections. I 
should make this a little bit more generic since the COFF file may 
include up to 2^16 different sections. Currently, the COFF loader is 
similar to the a.out but is should be like the ELF loader.

The help I need from you know is to clarify the usage of the "meminfo" 
structure and how it is initialized. Is this related to the PC 
architecture ? Do we need this in an embedded system ?

My first feeling is that I can load the structure with some static 
values without the need to execute functions such as basememsize(), 
meme820() which I do not know what they are supposed to return :-(

Finally, I would like to give my congratulations to all people that have 
contributed to this project. Now that I can run the etherboot in my 
development board I can save up to 5 minutes each time I load a new 
kernel. And you can imagine how important is this when you are 
developing a new kernel ..:-)

Regards

Yannis