[Oberon] Kernel Revision - was A2 and NO installers under bochs.

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Thanks Günter. Maybe it should be adjusted at least whem a new release is build ...

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From: Guenter Feldmann [fld at informatik.uni-bremen.de]
Received: Montag, 15 Dez. 2014, 14:50
To: ETH Oberon and related systems [oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch]
Subject: Re: [Oberon] A2 and NO installers under bochs.

On 12/15/14 01:11 PM, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
>> The complete serial port trace follows.  Somewhat odd that the trace
>> reports Rev-5387 whereas the image is named 5668.
>>
>
> I have been wondering about this difference also, I was not sure about
> that, but I guessed that the reported revision is the revision of
> Kernel.Mod. But, when I tried to assure that hypothesis, I found
> that in my SVN checkout (which was used to create the ISO image
> Peter used), the last committed version of Kernel.Mod is Rev. 5552
> and my current global revision version is 5894.
>
> So it must be a different file, which creates that revision number.
> At least I was able to dig out that 5387 was committed on 23-Aug-2013
> but the commit message is completely unrelated to the Kernel :-(
>
> --
>   Bernhard
>
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The revision number reported by the kernel is a string
constant exported by module I386.Machine.Mod:

     CONST
	Version = "A2 Revision 5387 (23.08.2013)";

The current svn revision number is 5894.

-- Guenter

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