[coyotos-dev] New to coyotos and first tests

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Fred:

First, welcome aboard. Your timing is good, since we will start working
on ethernet drivers here in about two weeks.

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:20 +0100, youshe zifeng wrote:
> So, I made my firsts tests on gentoo, I had some problems with global
> variables (COYOTOS-XENV, COYOTOS-ROOT, ...) and passed the problems by
> modifying the makefiles.

If your tree was set up correctly, you should not have needed to modify
COYOTOS_ROOT at all. If your coyotos-xenv parts are not installed
in /coyotos, you will need to set the environment variaable
COYOTOS_XENV.

No modifications to the makefiles should be needed. Other people have
been able to build on gentoo and debian releases successfully.

> Everything compiled, I tryed to boot the kernel with no success, the
> system just loaded the kernel and rebooted.

That does not sound successful. :-)

> Here's ending my presentation.
> Maybe, I'll have to write some drivers (for the intel e1000 first), is
> there somewhere to send them ?
> Is there a project to make a drivers server ?

We need to start that.

> I've seen some mails about xen support on this mailing list, is there
> any news about it ?

No. For the moment, qemu is the best tool for IA32 development.


shap