Hi,
> : Why should an inplace copy be dangerous? Ok, for Jazz machines the kernel
> : needs several *microseconds* longer to startup. A long time if you're
> : in hurry :-)
>
> In the past I've been bit by having inplace copy routines destroy what
> was being copied.
You're talking about overlapping copying but not inplace copies where
source == dest? This should not happen in case of the exception handler
since strcpy(9) copies from low to high addresses.
> : Adjust the videoparams and you have a debugging console. Usage should
> : be clear after a short look into the code. With print_string() and
> : sprintf() in combination you can the same things as with printk().
> : tinycon.c is also easily useable for other machines with a PC style
> : character based display.
>
> I'll have to whip that into shape, since I need to get the values of
> things like the end of memory, etc. I'd rather not do the gdb
> debugging yet, since I think that would be harder...
Grin, I've *once* tried to use the GDB support in the Kernel introduced
by Andy. When ld had wasted more than 5 minutes forcing my harddisk
to create yet unheard sounds I stopped that ...
Ralf
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