[haiku-gsoc] Re: [x86_64 port] kernel_args datastructure changes
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:01:32 +0200
On 2010-07-12 at 20:48:12 [+0200], Nathan Mentley <nathanmentley@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > you've been rather quiet recently. I hope everything is OK. You know that
> > whatever technical problems you run into, we'll be glad to assist you --
> > just ask. If anything personal affecting your work has come up, please
> > drop
> > a mail to your mentor or our GSoC admin, Matt (or this list, if you
> > prefer), so we can work out how to procede.
> >
> > Just in case you planned to finish your work in solitude and just drop us
> > the result at the end of the coding period, it is much preferred by us --
> > and necessary for the mid term evaluation anyway -- to get incremental
> > patches in not too long intervals. If I understood you correctly the
> > gcc/binutils patch works fine, so that would be a great candidate to send
> > us. Also the boot loader changes -- whether they already works perfectly
> > or
> > not -- would be nice to see.
>
> Sorry about my silence. I have no excuses for that.
>
> I can however upload a patch in a few hours after a bit of code cleanup.
> I have gcc/binutils working, the kernel compiling with temporary void
> functions, and the bootloader is almost working. I've ran into some
> relocation errors that weren't happening with smaller test elf64
> binaries, but are popping up while testing with a much larger elf64
> kernel. I'm pretty sure I'll nail those bugs down in the next few hours.
> hopefully.
>
> What would be the best way to upload the svn diff output? The text file
> is roughly 200kb which I feel might be a bit large for a mailing list.
Oh my, no one really likes to read such a monster patch. Please attach it to
a Trac ticket, ideally split up into independent individual patches, if
possible.
> Again, Sorry for my isolation, I'll try to remain more open with the
> development.
That would be much appreciated.
CU, Ingo
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