Patches from KATO Takenori

List

• PC98 arch
  • Patch available
    • pnpinfo (4136 bytes)
    • vidcontrol (3019 bytes)
    • libdisk (25400 bytes)
    • libdisk (gzipped: 6793 bytes)
  • Further work required
    • programs that use disklable.h
    • libvgl
    • lkm/atapi
    • lkm/syscons
    • lkm/pcic
    • sysinstall
• Other works
  • Security Patch
    • Logging Root Execs
      • Readme
      • patch (1210 bytes)
  • Beta Level Patch
    • Userland program to manipulate Cyrix CPUs special registers.
      • source code (2699 bytes)
  • Further work required
    • GUI program for above program.

Binary compatibility

• Binaries which work on both IBM-PC and PC98

  fdformat

  Binary should work on both IBM-PC and PC98 machines.

  pnpinfo

  Binary should work on both IBM-PC and PC98 machines.

  vidcontrol

  Binary should work on both IBM-PC and PC98 machines.

• PC98 uses different binaries from IBM-PC

  fdisk

  There is no binary compatibility, but it can be fixed easily.

  lkm/syscons

  There is no binary compatibility, but it can be fixed easily. (Kernel should be modified.)

  lkm/msdosfs

  There is no binary compatibility, and there is no idea to obtain.

  lkm/pcic

  There is no binary compatibility, and there is no idea to obtain.

  libdisk

  There is no binary compatibility, and there is no idea to obtain. binary compatibility.

How to detect architecture type from userland program?

Contact address

Kato Takenori

kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp

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