-------- In debian-alpha David Huggins-Daines wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Anyway, in the course of messing about with this, I thought I'd >> take a look at the milo source. However, debian does not appear to >> provide the source code! This is very bizarre considering that > >I wondered when someone was going to notice that. The problem is, to >build the 2.0.35 MILO (which we use, because it actually works), you >have to build a 2.0.35 kernel for every single subarchitecture then >relink MILO with it. So it's a rather involved process.
Yes; this is why I was hoping somebody else had done a source pkg :-> >The 2.2 MILO is easier to build since it uses a generic kernel. >However all of the binaries I have tried have simply not worked on >Miata (probably because of the IDE code in the kernel, but I'm not >sure) and there have been problems with other models too I think. Yep, didn't work on my LX164 (went nowhere at all), although the MILO image was rather smaller than the 2.0 one so I was suspicious of that... >There are some other problems with MILO. In particular, the only VGA >console code that seems to work is based on a non-free 8086 emulator >from DEC. > >So you see why Compaq is rather eager to deprecate MILO. Hmm. I'm using MILO because when I used SRM I ran into a PALcode exception problem which somebody suggested was due to a hardware bug/interaction with SRM's palcode. Also, I'd much rather use PALcode for which I have the source... Any chance of Compaq giving us the SRM console source? :-> >I am basically providing MILO in the boot-floppies as a courtesy to >people who have existing MILO-based installations. I do not use MILO >and don't have the time to invest in fixing either the >no-source-package problem or the bugs in its filesystem code that >cause problems for the installation process. > >Other people are certainly welcome to contribute, though, and you have >the source: ftp://genie.ucd.ie/pub/alpha/milo/milo-2.0.35-c7b.tar.gz Maybe I'll get round to doing something at some point :-> Peter Maydell
