[LMH]Re: [LispM-Hackers] Enabled paging on bare iron

[John Leuner]

> In case anybody cares, a small milestone...  I have enabled paging, so
> that now I can do some (albeit limited at this time) memory map MMU
> type hackery.  Took awhile before the code was, er, bug-free enough
> (thought I wasn't going to qualify that, eh?) to actually have the
> thing not reset itself as soon as I enabled paging.  Let's just say I
> learned to dread that SNAP that a multi-sync monitor makes when the
> box resets itself.  (My page tables were screwed up, and that confused
> the box in a Major Way.)
> 
> Thank God for the suggestion from the list members to use the serial
> port instead of the VGA console -- else the critical debugging
> information would've vanished in less than a heartbeat -- much faster
> than I could've read it.
> 
> It's also amazing what you can do after kids go to sleep.
> 
> Anyways, I need to map in the linear frame buffer, de-kludge the code
> some more, run some more tests, try and cause some paging error,
> etc. and generally add in functionality.  Will see how much time I get
> this weekend.

Does the multiboot build  still work?

I tried to build it, but failed with various errors in jjentry.

Your etherboot setup depends on a dhcp.h. What package contains this file?

John Leuner