darcs patch: Support an interrupt flag, and primitive... (and 4 more)

[Brian Rice]

I don't think this is platform-dependent at all. I just attempted to  
try your suggestion here, with the boot.c patch and all patches  
pulled into my repository, and with both a fresh image (bootstrapped  
from alpha with all non-related patches pulled) and the alpha image  
itself, I get the same error trying to run make newboot if I don't  
have a slate.image available.

However, doing so with an existing image that has gone through the  
initialization process works. So this bootstrap was trickier than  
communicated/realized. I'll upload my results once I'm satisfied.

Thanks!

On Oct 27, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:

> Brian Rice wrote:
>
>> Er, I meant to address this to Tony. Sorry, Nick. :)
>>
>
> OK, I've tried it on my mac. I took a copy of the head of main,  
> with all patches applied, and cleaned up (make distclean and remove  
> the libtool detritus). Typing "make" downloaded vm.c, vm.h,  
> big.image as expected and tried to build a vm. Of course, the  
> changes in boot.c don't work with the alpha vm.c, so I edited  
> boot.c temporarily thus:
>
> #if 0
>     if (InterruptFlag != False) {
>       InterruptFlag = False;
>     } else {
>       break;
>     }
> #else
>     break;
> #endif
>
> ... and next time, "make" succeeded. Then I did "make newboot",  
> which went without a hitch; then "make VM=vm.new"; then "./vm.new  
> big.new.image", which worked too.
>
> Now I'm undoing the temporary hack to boot.c, and I'll see if the  
> cooperative-threading thing works like it did on Linux last night.
>
> Tony
>

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-Brian