Re: [Geekos-devel] User Process Question...?

[Derrick S. <dsw...@at...>]

I have started working on adding in PECOFF support.  I don't know how long
it will take me, but I'll keep at it until it works and I have a user
process that runs.

Wish me luck...
Derrick


-----Original Message-----
From: David Hovemeyer <da...@cs...>
To: Derrick Swinarsky <dsw...@at...>
Cc: gee...@li... <gee...@li...>
Date: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Geekos-devel] User Process Question...?


>On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:52:20PM -0500, Derrick Swinarsky wrote:
>> I have downloaded the experimental version 0.1.0 and have compiled it on
my win98 machine with cygwin.  I have loaded it into the bochs simulator and
it seems to come up with no problem.  But... there are no user processes
running.  There is no keyboard echo, scrolling b's or anything.  Have I done
something wrong, or is this the intended output?
>
>Now that I've reread your message, I know why user processes aren't
>working for you.  Cygwin produces executables in PECOFF format, and
>GeekOS only supports ELF executables.  So, I would guess that GeekOS
>figures out that the executables aren't in the right format, and
>refuses to load them.
>
>Adding PECOFF support wouldn't be too hard if you were inclined to work
>on it.  In fact, there is a header file "pecoff.h" in the current sources
>which defines some of the offsets and values needed.
>
>-Dave