Re: pkg/51103: Updates for ski emulator

["Mathew\, Cherry G." <cherry%zyx.in@localhost>]

>>>>> "scole" == scole mail <scole_mail%gmx.com@localhost> writes:

    scole> The following reply was made to PR pkg/51103; it has been
    scole> noted by GNATS.  From: scole_mail <scole_mail%gmx.com@localhost> To:
    scole> gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost Cc: martin%NetBSD.org@localhost Subject: Re:
    scole> pkg/51103: Updates for ski emulator Date: Thu, 12 May 2016
    scole> 20:26:10 -0400

    scole>  So here is a patch to get basic ski console output working.
    scole> The ski simulator was decoding the wrong registers in
    scole> ssccnputc() due to automagically inlined ssc() which contains
    scole> a "break" simulated system call.
 
Hi - thank you for all your wonderful work!

    scole>  The ski loader "skiload" has almost exactly the same inline
    scole> assembly call for ssc(), but for whatever reason, (maybe
    scole> ssc() and ski_cons_putchar() are in different files?), the
    scole> ssc() function didn't get inlined and I/O worked fine.
 
    scole>  If there is a better way to fix, feel free. If I should open
    scole> another PR because this is part of src/ and not pkgsrc/
    scole> please let me know.
 
I am not in a position to look at this for a couple of weeks, I'm Cc:ing
the port maintainer and wiz@ to alert them.

    scole>  So with this patch I claim there is enough to say the
    scole> emulator is "working".
 

This is wonderful news! I will try it out in early June.

[OT] your mailhost doesn't accept email from mine. 

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