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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09.info.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: success with bde's com driver Message-ID: <1pckjh$l8@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 31 Mar 93 17:32:33 GMT References: <Mar.31.04.05.02.1993.4640@geneva.rutgers.edu> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >However, as someone commented, this is not for the faint at heart. >First, he has omitted the patch to one key header file (systm.h). >Fortunately all that's needed there is one additional line: > #include <i386/include/cpufunc.h> Must be #include <machine/cpufunc.h> (and the file it belongs in is isa.c. Okay...you end up including the same file, but it's just the way all kernel files include them. >I suspect he has also changed the declaration of strlen, as I >had to make a couple of trivial modifications to its declaration >in order to get things to compile. [rest deleted] I installed intr-0.0 and noticed some speedups to. Though I am not able to start X after installing it. The server just hangs on a select() call. I didn't take a closer look at it (yet) but I will soon. It should be something trivial though, as noone else is seeing it. About the comdriver: it does not have bidirectional capabilities and multiport functionality, but as soon as I fixed the annoying X problem, I will add this to bde's comdriver (starting with bidirectional capabilities). If anyone already did this, please tell me. -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0