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Tom's AVR assembler for Solaris 8 (x86)
Bash 2.x for NetBSD 1.6
MC 4.x for NetBSD 1.6
cfdisk 0.8.g for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of cfdisk 0.8.g with the
help of gcc 2.8.1
Download
tested with SCSI and IDE
HDD, please read README carefully.
Package contains cfdisk, and
patches for SCSI HDD haisd driver and IDE at driver.
c-kermit 8.0.209 for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of c-kermit 8.0.209 with
the help of gcc 2.8.1
efax for Coherent
4.2.10
Our port of efax
Download
tested with external Zoom
faxModem C.34X as sender and standard fax device(not a modem) as
receiver , but efax enables also receiving of faxes on Your
faxModem
no modem configuration is
required, copy the binaries and scripts to /bin
fax script contains
configuration parameters ( defaults to /dev/com2l), it means if
Your modem is plugged into com2, it will work out of the box
using :
convert txt file before
sending : efix -i text -o fax message.txt.001 >
message.fax.001
sending to phone 8670933 :
fax send 8670933 message.fax.001
Notice the name conventions
!!!
Tom's AVR Macro assembler for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of Tom's tavrasm , which
allows for compiling assembler programs for ATMEL AVR 8 bit
microcontrollers
Perl 5.005_003 for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of powerful and very
popular text manipulation and reporting language. Rather well
tested.
Steven's monitor for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of Steven(PItronics, not
Pitronics) avrmon , which allows for monitoring of programms
running in AVR 8 bit microcontroller , installed on STK200 or
SP12 evaluation board.
UISP AVR programmer for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of Uros ISP programmer
uisp , which allows for uploading of programms into AVR 8 bit
microcontroller , installed on most known evaluation boards.
PDP-11 emulator
for Coherent 4.2.10
Our port of pdp-11
emulator written by Warren
SIMH emulator
Our port of Bob famous emulator ,
which allows to boot ORIGINAL boot images of many pdp11(and
other) unix OS.download
Rescue floppy for
Coherent 4.2.10
How to start ?
After booting
from floppy You will be prompted to give the kernel name.
Enter
cohat
Rescue floppy for Coherent
serves two purposes :
/etc/fsck
/dev/at0a
/etc/mount /dev/at0a /mnt
cp
anyprogram /mnt
/etc/umount /dev/at0a
/etc/mount
/dev/at0a /mnt
cp tboot /mnt
cp cohat0
/mnt
cp cfdisk /mnt/bin
/etc/umount /dev/at0a
or
if You want to create Coherent filesystem. You can check the
number of blocks using cfdisk or fdisk
cfdisk {-c n}
{-h m} {-s o} {/dev/at0x| /dev/at1x}
mkfs /dev/at0a
numberofblocks
/etc/mount /dev/at0a /mnt
cp
programx /mnt
/etc/umount /dev/at0a
Rescue floppy contains both
MWC fdisk and our ported cfdisk
If Your harddrive has
Coherent installed, You can boot rescue floppy entering “cohat0”
instead of “cohat”.It will boot kernel from harddrive.In
this case it works like boot floppy for Linux.For example You
have not succeded to copy Coherent masterboot during
installation. You can do it now using Coherent fdisk. If You are
afraid that fdisk has changed partition table run cfdisk
afterwards.
Download
dd image
You should use dd on running
Coherent system or on Linux to create the floppy from the file.
Coherent : dd
if=crescue.dd of=/dev/fva0
Linux : dd if=crescue.dd
of=/dev/fd0
Adaptec
SCSI support
If You want to mount also SCSI harddrive,
You have to copy the kernel cohats5 from the second version of
the rescue floppy
/etc/mount
/dev/at0a /mnt
cp tboot /mnt
cp cohats5
/mnt
cp cohats5.sym /mnt
/etc/umount
/dev/at0a
sync
This kernel was tested in
mixed IDE/SCSI system , one with 50 MHZ Cyrix 486 PC and another
with 300 MHZ K6, in one case Adaptec AHA1542C was used and in
another 1542CF.
The parameters of the adapter : address 0x330,
interrupt 11, DMA 5.
Set interrupt 11 and DMA 5 to legacy ISA
in Your BIOS(these settings depend on BIOS).
Both systems
were booted from small(~500MB) IDE drive.
SCSI ID=0 for
HDD, ID=2 for tape were configured.
This kernel has also
builtin Ne2000 Ethernet driver, with address 0x240 and
interrupt=12, so if You want to use it then change Your card
eeprom with usually accompanying setup floppy(in DOS).
Motherboards tested
Three first boards from above list
allow for booting from IDE. For two last only booting from floppy
was tested.Generally BIOS should allow for setting drive type to
NORMAL(as opposite to LBA or LARGE etc) if You want to boot
Coherent from IDE.
Year 2000 patch date.gz
ATclock.gz
21.1.2005
Coherent
boot floppy for Duron
It is possible to generate the 4.2.10
kernel , which boots on Duron system.
The kernel is "thinner"
that standard kernels(for example we use kb keyboard driver).It
can boot from floppy, but it is not pure floppy kernel, it
contains IDE at driver. It means You could in principle mount
smaller (than 16 GB ) harddrive. .Do NOT use IDE drive with
important data. You risk to lose it.We were not able to mount
reliably small 174 MB IDE on this system.
News 8.5.2006 : We were
able to boot minimal kernel coherent.min on 1700 MB IDE drive
with prebuilt Coherent partition (< 500 MB) using the
following drive settings in BIOS :
32 bit OFF
block OFF
LBA OFF
PIO AUTO
Type of the disk USER
Motherboard tested
ECS K7S5A , Duron 1300 MHZ,
Matrox G450 AGP, default configuration, with everything
enabled
Remark : Because coherent.min kernel
does not support virtual consoles , /etc/ttys must contain the
following entry
1lPconsole
all other entries must have flag 0
set like
0lP.............
Do it before booting this
kernel(using older system for example). New system is very
stable.
4.6.2005
Installing
Coherent on 1700 MB IDE
It reports about my progress I have
made some months ago with booting from large( > 512 MB)
IDE
HDD.I have taken old drive 1700 MB with one NetBSD and one Linux
partition.I have
deleted the first ~450 MB NetBSD
partition under Linux and created empty AIX bootable (type
9)
partition instead. Then in BIOS of FIC VA-503 I have set
the type of addressing to NORMAL ( and not LBA ) . Then I
inserted standard installation floppy and started the
installation process.
During install You have to say YES if
installer asks about master boot . Then fdisk is started and
it
wants to change CHS(cylinders,heads,sectors). DO NOT allow to do
it. Simply answer NO(n). fdisk will repeatedly ask about some
discrepances it discovered, answer NO(n) for any write request,
it seems to loop but finally You get standard fdisk menu and
enter 0 option , do nothing. The rest of the proccess is the same
as we know it from older systems.It is reconstructed from my
memory after few months, so it is quite possible I have forgotten
some details.
26.10.2005
Installing
on 8GB IDE
Coherent 4.2.10 installed on brand
new WD 80EB-28CGH2 8 GB IDE harddrive (manufactured in 2004 in
Malaysia).
Disk defined in BIOS with NORMAL(not LBA),
interrupt 14/15 set to LEGACY ISA.
The partitions were created
before installation with the help of cfdisk using rescue floopy
:
255 MB(boot), 1999MB,1999MB,3745 MB.This drive is much
faster than old 1700 MB drive.
System boots fast without any
problems. tboot from rescue floppy is used.
File system on
3750 MB partition was created after installation , and the 128 MB
new kernel was used.File systems on 1999MB partitions were
created during installation.
300 MHZ system was
used.
19.5.2005
Support
for RAM greater than 16 MB
Modified
version of Coherent 4.2.10ap kernel is available for download .
Two test kernels for fixed RAM are available
128 MB RAM, IDE, PCI Realtek
8139 Ethernet driver download
64 MB RAM, SCSI (Adaptec
ISA) , ISA Ne2000 Eternet driverdownload
Notice , that both kernels use lower
kernel memory pool than standard kernel, it means
some
programs could exhibit problems, for example if You use ftp in
net , or if You compile/link
huge programs( about 9MB).
Usually one can ignore warnings and simply wait till the job is
done.
If the system crashes when using Realtek driver, unplug
the Realtek card from the system and
test once again.Both
kernels were compiled with MWC cc.Author of patches :
A.Popielewicz.
Hint : one could patch the kernel to make it
bootable from floppy.
This kernel includes 4 GB partition
patch, does not contain cfdisk patch.
Copyright : This release
made available by the copyright owner of Coherent, Open Coherent
LLC. The owner disclaims any and all liabilities that may arise
out of the use of this software. No warranties are given, and
warranties for merchantability and fitness are explicitly
disclaimed. This kernel can be used for non-commercial purposes
only.
2.8.2005
CompactFlash
Coherent 4.2.10 installs on
CompactFlash , 256 MB Kingston. The IDE-CompactFlash adapter from
www.port8h.com.pl was used.Tested on 486 and K6 system, tboot
from rescue floppy was used after installation, partitions were
created with cfdisk before installation.
Such system is much
faster than standard IDE harddrive.And You can get CompactFlash
card brand new .
31.7.2004
XFree
4.4 for Coherent 4.2.10
We have the pleasure to inform, that
newest version of XFree 4.4 Xfree.org
was
ported by us to Coherent 4.2.10. This port was developed on
enhanced version of
Coherent 4.2.10ap, supporting 64 MB of
RAM, and developed by us.
The system we used was FIC VA-503
with 300 MHZ K6.
screenshot X-Window
session
More
Tested
cards (generic drivers were used, NOT Vesa)
S3 Virge DX 1 MB PCI, depth
8 , depth 16/24 works too but colormap problems(True Color
visual not tested yet).
NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400,
64MB AGP (6.8.2004), depth 8/16/24 ( Nvidia server requires
special Coherent 4.2.10 kernel supporting 128 MB RAM, which was
also developed by us).XServer tested with visuals :
DirectColor(depth 8/16/24), TrueColor(depth 24).TrueColor visual
has better quality and no colormap flashing occurs. 2D
acceleration only.
Matrox G200 AGP ,16 MB, with
3D acceleration, works but cursor buggy, not usable(?)(seems do
not to work anymore 8.5.2006).
GeForce4 MX4000 AGP 64
MB(brand new ASUS V9400), depth 24(and 32 bit pixmap), 1280x1024
,19 inch LCD (8.5.2006)(in fact it worked only once, one should
not use this agp 4/8x card on agp 1x motherboard)
VGA server tested with :
GeForce2 AGP, S3Virge PCI, Matrox G200 AGP, only 320x200(depth
8) supported, best results with Matrox (8.5.2006). WOW : finally
VGA server works in depth 4 mode ( 640x400, 16 colors),it means
Xfree 4.4 is usable on any card (22.12.2007).
Networking
in our port of X-Windows :no networking, Unix domain BSD sockets
are used, once ported by Udo Munk
Ported
window managers:
twm
fvwm95screenshot
ctwm, Motif look and feel
uwm, based on original for
Ultrix from 1987
mwm (Motif 1.2/2.1)
Applications
ported
xterm
xclock
xlogo
xcalc
xvinfo
xvidtune
xditview
xfm
xedit
xpaint(gif,jpeg,png)
xscreensaver 3(greynetic,
xmatrix,
imsmap,xrayswarm,petri,bubbles,rocks,helix,interference,atlantis
etc)Infinity
xv
xeyes
xset
xkill
xprop
xwininfo
xfontsel
xlsfonts
xstdcmap
xliscreenshot
xrefresh
xdvi
xanim
2.7/2.8(avi,jpg,mov,mpg etc), xanim 2.8 plays Xaos mpg
animations
xgc
xwd
xmodmap
Mosaic 2.7b5(last)NCSA
Mosaic
ImageMagick 5.1.1/6.x
ImageMagick project
etc....
Extra
libraries
Packages
Media
XCdplayer 2.2 , old
recompiled version , CD audio player for SCSI cdroms(amplifier
or headphones connected to CD drive)
XTuner 2.x , tested with
stereo AimsLab Radio ( ISA interface)
more news
Printing
GNU Ghostscript 7.05 more
AFPL Ghostscript
8.14screenshot
hpijs 1.6.x HP Inkjet Server
groff 1.10more
Games
Drawing
Large IDE
HDD patch
Fractals
Internet
Realtek 8139 (PCI) driver
with in kernel ICMP,ARP,DHCP,IP,UDP,TCP support
ping command
dhclient command (only name
in common with linux friend)
mutt 1.4 as a mail browser
(with full color support,looks great), sends and replies of
emails, linkMUTT
lynx 2.8.x offline,mutt uses
it for displaying emails with html content. Impressive.lynx
gnuPG 1.1 (for signing and
encrypting, no IDEA), used by muttgnuPG
csendmail and cfetchmail (
SMTP,POP3) in cooperation with mutt, it means mutt uses external
programs csendmail to send an email; nothing in common with
known fetchmail/sendmail programs , spam killer can be added to
cfetchmail(planned)
fetchnews and postnews
(NNTP)
trn 4.x as a news
browser(slrn planned)TRN
gethttp (HTTP), downloads
the content of given www page from www server, it is clear that
one needs www browser ( xmosaic 1.2 and mosaic 2.75b are ported
but still without network support, just for offline docs
browsing)
none of the above programs
has something to do with inetutils etc
5.6.2005
Programming tools
for Coherent 4.2.10
gas assembler 2.9, we use it
together with gcc 2.8.1
gcc C/C++ compiler 2.8.1
rock stable , compiled our XFree 4.4 port .Ported in 2003/4(?).
gcc C compiler 2.95.3 ,
gossip says it was so good no Linux kernel could be compiled
with it because compiler detected bugs in Linux kernel. In the
meantime it became the recommended tool for compiling Linux
kernels. gcc 2.9x is(was) part of Solaris 9 distribution. Full
C/C++ package is planned. Ported on 3.6.2005GCC
gas assembler 2.14, rock
stable , we use it with 2.8.1 or 2.95.3.For example our gcc
2.95.3 was built with this version. Notice that standard for
RedHat 9 is gas 2.13. Ported on 1.6.2005 Binutils
perl 5.8.6, standard for
RedHat 9
11.9.2005
python 1.5.2
tk3.4/tcl7.1 -the same as
once distributed by MWC, but recompiled
tk8.0.5/tcl8.0.5,xf4.3
tex 3.14x (tetex2.x)more
screenshot, extremely powerful
mathematical typesetting tool tex
ncurses 5.x
openlwm(Sun) , only few old
applications work with this wm, like xterm,xev,xgc etc(we mean
XFree4.4 environment only)
7.7.2005
New Realtek8139
driver project started.more
Features:
interrupt driven
dhcp(UDP) in kernel support
ping(ICMP) in kernel support
tcp protocol in kernel
support
tcp sockets
Tested :
our dhclient
our ping
our sockets library
our sendmail(SMTP)
our fetchmail(POP3)
lynx 2.8.1/2.8.3(10.9.2005)
online (http,news,gopher)
Mosaic 2.7b5 online
(http,news,gopher(wow, I found Coherent gopher archivefloodgap))
7.9.2005 our dns tcp support
added (based on dns support in cohulip)
Problems/todo
Started in March/April 2007
System oriented projects
64 bit filesystem , with
goal to support big > 4 GB Coherent partitionsmore
port of mtools, access to
FAT16/FAT32 filesystem from Coherent userland
port of mkdosfs, creates
FAT16, FAT32 filesystem on a primary partition
at (IDE) driver with LBA
support more
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