[OpenBIOS] Update
Programmingkid
programmingkidx at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 22:41:24 CET 2012
On Dec 20, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> On 2012-Dec-19 11:39 , Programmingkid wrote:
>> This patch is what allowed me to go so far in booting:
>>
>> Index: forth/admin/iocontrol.fs
>> ===================================================================
>> --- forth/admin/iocontrol.fs (revision 1041)
>> +++ forth/admin/iocontrol.fs (working copy)
>> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
>> ;
>>
>> : io-emit ( char -- )
>> + stdout @ 0= if drop exit then \ make sure stdout pointer is not null
>> io-out-char c!
>> io-out-char 1 " write" stdout @ $call-method drop
>> ;
>>
>>
>> I could post the CIF, but it is huge. The above patch is definitely needed.
>
> The above indicates a larger problem - the open of output-device failed somehow. You don't want to just drop output, you want to figure out why that failed.
According to this page: http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2011-August/006620.html, bootx is setting this variable to null.
I think this patch is all we need fo fix the problem.
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