pice-src.tar.gz_pice_softice_softice linux

2004-02-17: The DEBUG defines have now been removed and currently only DEBUG_SERIAL exists. As it turned out, it didn't really make sense to support all that other stuff and only made the defintion uneccessary complex. A major change has been done with the configuration file and DEBUG output. Debugging: The debug statements are now printed with file, function and linenumber information, as well as with indentation to show the call tree. This makes debugging much easier as it immedaitely points to where the message has been issued. Also I created addtional functions which don't check the address of memory passed to it. With this you can issue debug messages also in places where it was previously not possible because not everything was already initialized. You only have to take care that you don't use virtual memory when you call these functions. The new macro DVPRINT can do this. Configuration: The old handler for the configuration file has been removed. I ported a handler to kernel mode wich I wrote to read/write MS Windows INI style files. The new configuration file now looks like this: /etc/pice.conf ---------------- = This is a comment # This is also a comment [Display] VideoDriver=vga [Init] SystemMap=/boot/System.map /etc/pice.conf ---------------- For valid values of VideoDriver please look into config.c. I also created a macro which should fix the problem with a kernel function being changed from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19. Now pICE should compile on any kernel from 2.4.18 on. 2003-06-18: Changed the behaviour of the DEBUG defines. Now you either have to define DEBUG (which goes to printk) or DEBUG_SERIAL (which goes of course to the serial port). If you need to check in the code if debugging should be activated you must use __PICE_DEBUG__ which is defined by both DEBUG symbols. 2003-06-14: Added a new DEBUG define DEBUG_SERIAL. If present the output goes to the serial port. This was the default output previously. Now the normal DEBUG uses printk for debug logging. If you want to have debugging to serial you need to define both defines.