Also,
I forgot to mention, both NUE and SKI are very well implemented and
impressive programs of high overall quality. I am impressed with what
you have done.
:-)
Jeff
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
>
> David,
>
> I worked on the NUE and SKI stuff until 1 a.m. last night and got all of
> out NWFS code running and built under IA64, and here's what I found was
> busted in the NUE program with ncurses.
>
> In the nue-fs.rpm file that comes with the NUE IA64 shell, the file
> nucurses.h is symbolically linked to curses.h in /usr/include.
>
> i.e.
>
> ncurses.h -> curses.h
>
> Except that the curses.h file is missing from the distribution. rpm
> --rebuild ncurses* works on RedHat 6.1, but does not work on RedHat 6.2
> (which is what I use on my desktop).
>
> You also have a bug in the initscr() function in your version of
> libcurses.so that does not map the keyboard properly to the terminal
> type when keypad() is called. When ncurses terminates with the app,
> endwin() is not reseting the terminal correctly, and you have to
> manually type "reset".
>
> Also, the HD ioctl calls are improperly implemented, and returns
>
> linux-syscall: suspect ioctl 0x301
>
> when you attempt to do a simply open() and ioctl(GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY)
> [HD-GET_GEO].
>
> FYI. What's up there seems to work OK if you are using printf() and no
> ioctl() function calls.
>
> :-)
>
> Jeff
>
> David Mosberger wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:46:00 -0600, "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said:
> >
> > Jeff> Anyone know if ncurses has been ported to IA64? The SKI/NUE
> > Jeff> IA64 simulator at www.linuxia64.org doesn't have it, and the
> > Jeff> NUE emulator does not include it in the IA64 rootfs image they
> > Jeff> are distributing.
> >
> > Hmmh, I have to say I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing
> > here. Ski/NUE has been released by HP and Intel and is available via
> > a free download from http://software.hp.com/ia64linux/. If you have a
> > slow Internet connection, you can order CD-ROM from the same URL. The
> > CD-ROM is free, as well (even shipping is free).
> >
> > Jeff> The documentation states, ".... You now have everything
> > Jeff> necessary to get started with serious IA64 development ...".
> > Jeff> Wonder why ncurses was not included?
> >
> > Jeff> :-)
> >
> > But it is there:
> >
> > $ rpm -qlp nue-fs-1.0-1.i386.rpm | grep ncurses
> > /nue/usr/include/ncurses.h
> > /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.a
> > /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.so
> > /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
> > /nue/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2
> > /nue/usr/lib/libncurses_g.a
> > /nue/usr/lib/libncurses_p.a
> >
> > Can you tell me why you think otherwise?
> >
> > In any case, like Jes explained, rebuilding the ncurses RPM inside NUE
> > is easy so even if you have the need to recompile ncurses, you should
> > be all set.
> >
> > On a related note: it's probably better to send such questsions to
> > lia64-sim@linux.hpl.hp.com or to use the online forum at
> > http://devresource.hp.com/devresource/Topics/ia64linux.html as we
> > don't always have time to keep up with the high volume on
> > linux-kernel.
> >
> > --david
> >
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