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<stikonas>M0_x86 now also uses GAS style M0 DEFINE statements <stikonas>fossy: we should really try to incorportate Fiwix soonish... <stikonas>otherwise that branch will always have to catch up... <janus>rekado: i have been progressing a bit on porting ghc0.96 to nhc <janus>now kinda done with the parser. there are mutually dependent modules so i am rewriting hi files by hand in the nhc syntax <oriansj> janus: sweet, glad to hear progresson the haskell front <janus>hopefully it will eventually work, it's hard to say how much work is remaining... <fossy>stikonas[m]: yes, agreed - i'm waiting for rickmasters' update <fossy>we still need fiwix -> linux kexec though.. <Mikaku>rickmasters: regarding kexec(), I guess this will need a proper memory manager that supports allocating large blocks of memory <Mikaku>this is not possible right now, but I plan its implementation in the next months <Mikaku>meanwhile you might want to add a hack ini mem_ini() to reserve a fixed memory space to load the kernel during kexec() <Mikaku>rickmasters: anyway, let me know if you want to talk on this or you need any help <rickmasters>Mikaku: I'll keep that in mind. Honestly I haven't started thinking about it. <rickmasters>Mikaku: I'm working on trying to move from ram disk to hard disk for Fiwix work but I've run into problems. <rickmasters>Mikaku: I've got I/O errors and lock ups. I'm still trying to narrow it down and might need your help at some point. <Mikaku>rickmasters: make sure you have the latest kernel version as the ATA disk driver has suffered some changes, I still need to push more changes but it is fairly stable right now <Mikaku>rickmasters: I'll push the latest changes in the ATA disk driver tomorrow morning <rickmasters>Mikaku: ok, thanks. I'll try out the latest changes when they're ready <nektro>why would you need vscode to compile vscode? <stikonas[m]>People do know how to compile vscode, there are some packages