Hello all, In the Multimac driver within the chipset specific portions, there ... function does not take any arguments, so where's 'flags' being set? There are...
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Dee Sharpe
southpoppin247
Sep 1, 2011 10:11 pm
... Figures that I'd find the answer after posting the email... -- Dee Sharpe The difference between what IS done & what COULD be done is relational to what...
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abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 2:14 am
I am attempting to create a device driver to provide HLT to run my laptop cooler. I figure I should be able to use the helloworld device driver replacing the...
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merlincp2@...
amphi_sc
Sep 12, 2011 11:53 am
My guess would be to make a call into a halt subroutine coded in assembler and that resulting obj linked in. The "alpref.inf" book in the toolkit library...
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Mike O'Connor
mikeoconwarp
Sep 12, 2011 1:37 pm
... Hi Andy, From the (80486) Intel Instruction Set for Opcode 0xf4: Operation: Enter Halt state; Description: The HLT instruction execution stops instruction...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 1:56 pm
... I figured out the syntax I needed for the HLT. Seems to be working so far. However, I see two other oddities. When I try to change the name from Hello$...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 2:08 pm
Thanks, What I had ended up doing was replacing DosBeep in the helloworld device driver with: __asm { hlt } Then in the executable, I put a while(1) to keep...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 2:49 pm
... Ok, the IPE from stopping the executable was from placing my DosSleep before I closed the file, therefore, when I stopped the executable the file was still...
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Roderick Klein
rwkleinwanad...
Sep 12, 2011 3:00 pm
... I guess you are working on this because ACPI does not provide good throttle support. In most cases the fan runs slower/faster depending on how how hot the...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 4:39 pm
... Throttle control works fairly well except that I have to set it such that then the mouse jerks around quite a bit to start until the CPUs kick back up (one...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Sep 12, 2011 5:33 pm
In <4E6E1BC3.2060001@...>, on 09/12/11 at 08:48 AM, Andy Willis <abwillis1@...> said: Hi Andy, ... Odd. It's not obvious to me why this would...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 5:41 pm
... I renamed it to Idlehlt$ and it had no problem then. I uploaded the driver and source to netlabs incoming. Unfortunately, the concept has not had any...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 12, 2011 6:04 pm
... The screen shows: System detected an Internal Processing error at location ##0158:5C1B - 000E:5C1B 60001,5001 0F8606E8 Internal revision 14.100o_SMP Using...
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Roderick Klein
rwkleinwanad...
Sep 13, 2011 8:52 am
... David has also been making the throttle support in ACPI more responsive then what we shipped with eCS 2.1. As I said I hope to release a new ACPI within 2...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Sep 13, 2011 4:11 pm
In <4E6E4995.3020702@...>, on 09/12/11 at 12:04 PM, Andy Willis <abwillis1@...> said: Hi Andy, ... The panic is triggered by AddRecFromDevHdr()...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 13, 2011 4:28 pm
... I knew it was limited to 8 but not that the limitation was that it had to be exactly 8. I didn't receive any warnings from OpenWatcom from the above. Andy...
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Paul Ratcliffe
cpratcliffe
Sep 13, 2011 5:11 pm
... the ... How do you explain the header.err file that is in the archive you uploaded to Netlabs which contains this then? header.c(55): Warning! W122:...
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Allan Holm
alh01dk
Sep 13, 2011 10:22 pm
... W4 and UNI kernel already provides that. For SMP kernel just use the patched kernel available in ECS Betazone, or any OS/4 kernel. You might need ACPI...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 13, 2011 10:52 pm
... For one I don't want to be limited to what kernel I can use, though after a conversation with Scott Garfinkle about the merits of one of the kernels that...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 13, 2011 11:03 pm
... There were no warnings on the console when I ran make and didn't think to check for a .err file. ... This was helpful information, I have now added this...
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Allan Holm
alh01dk
Sep 14, 2011 12:36 am
... Which ACPI version ? ... Never seen that problem. How do you start ACPI daemon ? Tried C2 C3 ? How do you expect your device driver should help you ? A HLT...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 14, 2011 2:13 pm
... 3.19 currently, on the Uni system it was most likely 3.14 or 3.15. ... I have C3 set in the acpid.cfg file but right below that it says that idlestate is...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 19, 2011 2:43 pm
The driver seems to be helping but I wasn't sure if when HLT is called if it affects both cores. I found that C states are core independent so it seems...
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Dawn Raison
dzraison
Sep 19, 2011 3:00 pm
I think you'll find that the argument for DosSetThreadAffinity is a bit mask where each bit maps to a processor/core. Hence 0x11 being valid makes sense for a...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Sep 19, 2011 3:33 pm
In <4E77550D.40403@...>, on 09/19/11 ... I've not looked at your latest code, but the only way you will make this work, assuming I can actually work at...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 19, 2011 6:05 pm
... The Control Program Guide and Reference Addendum is where I got the code I posted. It has a few missing characters as it is missing a couple of < signs on...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Sep 19, 2011 6:39 pm
In <4E77844E.8060309@...>, on 09/19/11 at 12:05 PM, Andy Willis <abwillis1@...> said: Hi Andy, ... This is to be expected. Overal the IBM docs are...
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Slavik Gnatenko
miracle9s
Sep 19, 2011 8:45 pm
... SMP doesn't have any specific here. All task time access to whole PDD set is serialized on the spinlock by kernel. Of course in any system it is possible ...
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Andy Willis
abwillis1
Sep 19, 2011 11:44 pm
... The relevant code is: rc = DosDevIOCtl(hfFileHandle, 0x91, 0x01,NULL,0,NULL,0,0,0); Instead of hfFileHandle it had driver_handle. driver_handle was set to...
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Eugene Gorbunoff
eugenegorbunoff@...
Dec 31, 2011 11:46 am
To develop the system, we should know who was working on it, what is the role of this people. We are collecting this information on the sites: * Interviews...
