[Coco] ack!

[Bill Pierce]

On the Nitros9 Level 3 build.
First, did anyone read Alan DeKok's doc and readme?
 This level is not going to boot properly when built until the issue of IOMan, Krn, clock and possibly krnp2 is resolved.
 His notes clearly state that these modules have to be modified to point to the "nitros9" module before anything is initialized. This module (nitros9) moves all modules (rbf & scf) into their proper memory spaces which is the whole reason for the new boot process.
The original "modified" modules are in the maltedmedia archives (I think) or I have them if someone wants them. These need to be disassembled and brought up to date unless someone actually has the sources. They were originally built for NitrOS-9 Level 2 6309 ver 1.22m and are labeled "ioman.l3", "clock.l3.soft.60hz", os9p1.l3" and "os9p2.122m". The "new" Level 3 modules are "nitros9" and "_end". The sources to the last 2 are in the Level 3 folder under "Modules" in the repo.
Alan states in his doc that various clocks were available for download, but those downloads are long gone. If anyone has builds of these clock modules, they need to be put into the archives.
At one time I had a bootable disk running but was using Jeff's emulator and it was all a little flakey which the emulator itself was a litte flakey so it was not a good test platform. Alan states in the doc that there were several systems (10+) running beta Level 3 builds for almost a year. One was running a BBS that had run for 2 months without a reboot. He's said it seemed to be stable.

To get this going, ioman.l3, os9p1.l3, and clock.l3.soft.60hz need to be disassembled and ioman, krn & clock need to be examined and patched to reflect what was done to those v 1.22m modules as the newer modules have been changed greatly since then.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 7:47 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!


On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:

> Gene (and all):
>
> 	I have revision:
>
> HAWKSoft(chrish)$ hg log | more
> changeset:   2829:ed9a4cb85fb3
> branch:      lwtools-port
> tag:         tip
> user:        boisy
> date:        Sun Jun 02 15:30:19 2013 -0500
> summary:     Fixed makefiles and defsfile for level 3
>
> Until there is a makefile in
> $(NITROS9DIR)/level3, level3 will not compile.
> Copying the $(NITROS9DIR)/level2/makefile there might work. (I've
> got to get to work, so I don't have time right now.

That will be the least of your issues getting it to build.  Trust me, I 
spent several hours on it before Boisy made his announcement about a fix.

Steve


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