Hi,
On 17-Aug-98 Gleb O. Rajko wrote:
>
> Hi Harald,
>
> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Harald Koerfgen wrote:
>
>>
>> We have the first user process running too :-). Just beeing curious, have
>> you
>> used code from DECstation-Linux or have you hacked the R3000 support
>> independantly?
>
> I guessed you have it as init, so fork/exec stuff isn't tested yet. Am I
> right ?
I wish it were so. Actually it's a little test program which writes "Hello
World" to /dev/ttyS0. I am working on a serial device driver at the moment.
> We had a lot of problem with fork/exec and signal delivering and
> half of time/efforts we spent during entire port was to fix that stuff.
>
> Independently. Unfortunately, Linux/MIPS FAQ doesn't have any links to
> DECstation site. That's why, I had to pick up 2.1.100 from SGI tree
> instead of 2.1.99. I am going to replace some our assembler routines by
> yours because ours are worse. (We haven't experiences with MIPS
> assmebler before.)
>
> Gleb.
Well, that's not bad. We just have to pick the better solution when merging
our ports :-). Would you mind to send me your patches?
Happy hacking.
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Regards,
Harald
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