Re: 2.1.109p2 on UDB

Dominik Kubla (kubla@sundiver.zdv.uni-mainz.de)
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:01:27 +0200

On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 07:04:38AM -0400, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> All,
>
> 2.1.109p2 fails to build on a UDB. Two symbols required by the vga
> console code,
>
> memsetw
> memsetw_io
>
> are missing in action. I suspect they are builtins for egcs development
> compilers. Can someone confirm this, and/or suggest a workaround for
> egcs-1.0.3?

No. Somehow the patch from Geert (which apparently was incorporated by
Linus into 109-2) screwed up TGA support. I got Geerts 108b patch to
compile and run after i removed the parts of his patch wrt to memsetw/
memsetw_c_io and DENSE_MEM.

So now the TGA FB is working, but you can brew yourself a cup of coffee
while the screen scrolls. And you can't even switch VC while it is
scrolling. Wasnt there something mentioned about changing the
scrolling method by defining a different SCROLL_* flag?

Dominik Kubla

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