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From: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Re: boot/efi: support framebuffer with 64-bit base address
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:54:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGw6cBtN26Zm-d5YmiEGguS8Fc-XTGwy_e6udn6rji6r5JQc1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YC7M31aMMMSBFkEW@alice>

On 2021-02-18, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
> I'd change numfmt to take a uvlong instead
> of adding another special case to hexfmt.

I had tried this, but it doesn't work because numfmt takes the
remainder mod the base then divides by the base (until it prints all
the digits). This same code is used to build bootia32.efi which needs
special runtime functions (_modvu and _divvu) to implement these
operations on a uvlong.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-18  8:58 [9front] " Michael Forney
2021-02-18 20:23 ` [9front] " Anthony Martin
2021-02-18 21:54   ` Michael Forney [this message]
2021-02-20 11:48   ` cinap_lenrek
2021-02-20 11:56 ` [9front] " cinap_lenrek

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