: The way that theyuse to pass arguments/environment variables to the
: started program is a bit wired and I think there might well be a bug.
: Hell, if M$ can make NT run, then we'll get Milo running on every
: MIPS box too, won't we? Just angry againabout this ARC shit ...
I understand. The ARC BIOS on my machine seems basically sane, but
there are still a number of bugs that keep popping up.
: The data you've posted looks pretty sane, that's right.
Cool. I'll use it then for the rPC in milo then.
However, I noticed that for a long time the Tyne port has had the
value 0x80800000 hard wired into the value for memupper. Do you
happen to know of a way to ask it more directly? Since I'm here
fixing memory things, I'd kinda like to fix that as well. If not, do
you think there is a chance that the "old" PC way of finding memory by
asking the real time clock at various offsets would work? Failing
that, what do you do? A binary search :-) Prompt the user :-)
: Again you might try to
: disassemble NT drivers/HAL. I happen to have ported the binutils for
: NT targets just for this purpose :-> The port is however horrible; it
: links only with the option -noinhibit-exec to ld but that's good enough
: for objdump -d and that what I did it for. Tell me if you need the
: patches ...
Yes. I'd be interested.
Too bad I don't have more time to devote to this. I'd hack together a
filter for objdump that would allow me to reconstruct the C code, when
possible, from the MIPS object code for some functions. Yes, I know
that is a "hard" problem, since you have to do a lot of data flow
analysis on a process that is inherently lossy :-(. A man can dream,
can't he :-).
: Well, what I say isn't just a guess. It's what the M$ HAL specs for
: WNT 3.51 say.
It is good to know that the specs match what I've seen :-). Are the
HAL Specs for NT on the 3.51 CD, or are they available elsewhere? I
know that the ARC BIOS spec isn't on the CD that supposedly contains
all the NT documentation that is available (or at least it is well
hidden). :-(.
Warner
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