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Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086

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Release 0.3.1 draft #307

Closed mfld-fr closed 4 years ago

mfld-fr commented 4 years ago

Release criteria:

All reported boot problems on real HW solved (see mailing list)
FAT support proven to be dramatically improved (TBC by @Mellvik on real HW)
Images from package manager as artifacts in the CI
Boot from FAT

Draft of the release description:

Main changes (thanks @ghaerr) :

Build under OSX
Build as normal user (no more sudo)
Nano-X graphics restored and integrated
MINIX filesystem tools on host side
FATimages support (FD and flat HD only)
Boot from FAT volume
ELKSEMU take over and fixing (thanks @tkchia)

Minor changes:

GCC-IA16 usage (thanks @tkchia)
LIBC tuning (thanks @tkchia)
chmem tool reintroduced on target
ELKS BPB for easier FD CHS probing
Safer wait event function
Kernel code cleanup
Ram disk restored

Bug fixes:

Configuration & build scripts (thanks @tkchia)
Kernel FAT filesystem and FAT fake dev (thanks @fonin and @ghaerr)

Milestone: https://github.com/elks-org/elks/milestone/1

Mellvik commented 4 years ago

Great work everyone, I'll do some physical hardware testing (80286/12 and 80386/20) over the weekend. Which configuration(s) should I be focusing on?

Mellvik

mfld-fr commented 4 years ago

It would be nice if we could kill issues #123 and #306.

So I would say booting from a MINIX floppy, mounting the FAT HD and try to reproduce 🤔 ?

ghaerr commented 4 years ago

@Mellvik:

So I would say booting from a MINIX floppy, mounting the FAT HD and try to reproduce 🤔 ?

Agreed. I will temporarily modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to try mounting FAT from /dev/fd1 rather than /dev/bda1 which will greatly speed up your testing by not having to mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt after every boot. I am very interested in bug reports that can be confirmed with commands immediately after boot, although I realize that some #123 issues are stubborn and require more time and not easily reproducible.

I have only been testing on on the 1440k floppy (fd1440-fat.bin) on QEMU, so it would be nice to also test 360k and 720k images if possible (although no big deal, since they're all FAT12 at this point). The FAT16 and FAT32 testing require larger disk images than we have on older equipment, so that will likely be tested on an emulator, right?

xrayer commented 4 years ago

Wow, I can see "Boot from FAT", well what bootsector code did you implemented and how problem with /dev was solved? I will update the sources, recomplile and try out on my 286 :)

mfld-fr commented 4 years ago

@xrayer : thank you to be so enthusiast ! But this issue is only to draft the next release. Please wait a bit more to get that next release published 😄 ...

For the explanations about /dev handling and boot sector, please see the ongoing discussion in #296.

xrayer commented 4 years ago

(Moved to #324)

mfld-fr commented 4 years ago

Not managing the next release anymore. Closing this one.