2016 and the coming of the Great Pain.

Happy New Year and the prophesy has become true.

For information, a 2016 built beta ROM build is available for download, accompanied by a ZeroPain module that retired from active life at the end of last year.

This is a beta process and the consequences were known in advance. The new ROM is running on my Raspberry Pi 2 and, as intended, Zero Page accesses now error.

To demonstrate a potential lack of commitment to this brave new future I have preserved the last 2015 Pi ROM in both high and low vector forms and have an “interfered with” 2016 ZeroPain module.

For information, a 2016 built beta ROM build is available for download, accompanied by a ZeroPain module that retired from active life at the end of last year.

Yes, noticed that the morning that the first 2016 build appeared.
2016 build with no ZeroPain module or 2016 with a working ZeroPain module would at least set a marker for where ROOL expect things to be. This just looks like a limbo situation.

RO5.23 is a Beta version … and there has been a holiday period recently.
Perhaps the few guys at ROOL deserve some time off more than most.
I am sure this will be resolved given some time and patience.

If more people were to offer to help ROOL (and developers) to resolve these issues, things might move faster.

RO5.23 is a Beta version … and there has been a holiday period recently.
Perhaps the few guys at ROOL deserve some time off more than most.

While the beta status is universally known we do have a few timing issues to look at:

USB and NTLM changes took a lengthy time to be included in a build and thus the only way of accessing those changes is to use a post ZPP build which gives users little choice on whether to take the ZPP build and be reliant on the ZP module or to ignore a feature that opens up proper use of SMB2 shares.
That may be a small niggle for some users.

The Jan 1st deadline has been known for a tad under 6 months so planning for the first ROM of 2016 had a little bit of leeway in the preparation.
I rather assumed that when elements of the OS turned out to have ZPP issues there would be an extension and that the first build of 2016 would be slightly further into the month and include a later “sell by date” for ZeroPain.

I’m aware of the time pressures and voluntary nature of the ROOL work and as a volunteer worker, in another field, I appreciate how much people moan without doing anything to help.
The timing in this instance is such a small detail with such a large impact.

The capable people will, I assume, have concocted themselves a 2016 ZeroPain.¹
Those not capable of such can simply ignore all the 2016 builds.
That does of course rather reduce the number of testers. That would be a shame.

¹ Obviously those who have done so cannot distribute it. That’s why Rick posted his hack sequence using Zap. StrongED does the job too.
Tweaking the source to produce a 2016 or non-date-specific version and compiling is another option, but that requires a compiler.

Obviously those who have done so cannot distribute it

zeropain is distributed with a bsd licence

1 Obviously those who have done so cannot distribute it. That’s why Rick posted his hack sequence using Zap.

…err… not quite. ;-)

I posted the hack sequence using Zap because I don’t run a ZPP build.

I need the localtime() function to work with a UK territory that understands CET/CEST (so the timezone is the system default, not some whimsical locale rubbish). Neither are present in the standard build, and I haven’t had the time/inclination to unpack, mod, and build a new set of sources. It’s been about a year, I guess I ought to…some day…

In case any else has missed it the latest Fat32FS is version 1.50

An older version in use here made it painful to backup to a Fat32FS drive using 7backup or SyncDiscs.

This is a bit of a disappointment given OS5’s lack of logging. The cause was the screensaver !SprBounce not being able to find its JPEG which was on a old Pen that is not there now, having moved the whole HD4 image from that Pen to an SSD.

*fx0
RISC OS 5.23 (12 Jan 2016)
*help wimple
Module is: Wimp Error Logger 1.02 (07 Sep 2003)
*help syslog
Module is: SysLog 0.20 (16 Jun 2003)

Errors
16 Jan 14:08:33 000 00000000: (unknown): Please insert disc 'Pen16'
16 Jan 14:08:45 --- 100826 log lines missed while in IRQ mode

ZeroPain log
Time: Sat Jan 16 14:08:38 2016
Location: Offset 0000021c in module WimpLog
Current Wimp task: Unknown
Last app to start: BASIC -quit "SCSI::HardDisc4.$.!BOOT.RO500Hook.Res.Configure.ScrSavers.!SprBounce.!RunImage" 537177152

R0  = 203844e8 R1  = 203844ed R2  = 00000000 R3  = 00000000
R4  = 00000041 R5  = 000000d4 R6  = 00000004 R7  = 00000008
R8  = 0000003a R9  = 0000001f R10 = 20384480 R11 = 0000001f
R12 = 30003c34 R13 = fa207de4 R14 = 203844a0 R15 = 203844d8
DFAR = 00000004  Mode SVC32  Flags nzCv If   PSR = 20000193

20384490 : e1a04001 : MOV     R4,R1
20384494 : e1a05002 : MOV     R5,R2
20384498 : e3a00001 : MOV     R0,#1
2038449c : ef06c88e : SWI     XSysLog_IRQMode
203844a0 : e28f0040 : ADR     R0,&203844E8
203844a4 : e2042c0f : AND     R2,R4,#&0F00       ; =3840
203844a8 : e1a02422 : MOV     R2,R2,LSR #8
203844ac : e3120001 : TST     R2,#1
203844b0 : 03a02000 : MOVEQ   R2,#0
203844b4 : 11a020a2 : MOVNE   R2,R2,LSR #1
203844b8 : e3140010 : TST     R4,#&10            ; =16
203844bc : 028f1029 : ADREQ   R1,&203844ED
203844c0 : 128f103e : ADRNE   R1,&20384506
203844c4 : e3a03000 : MOV     R3,#0
203844c8 : e3550000 : CMP     R5,#0
203844cc : d28f5040 : ADRLE   R5,&20384514
203844d0 * e5964000 * LDR     R4,[R6,#0]
203844d4 : e2866004 : ADD     R6,R6,#4
203844d8 : ef06c88b : SWI     XSysLog_LogFormatted
203844dc : e3a00000 : MOV     R0,#0
203844e0 : ef06c88e : SWI     XSysLog_IRQMode
203844e4 : e8bd807f : LDMIA   R13!,{R0-R6,PC}
203844e8 : 504d4957 : SUBPL   R4,R13,R7,ASR R9
203844ec : 78342500 : LDMVCDA R4!,{R8,R10,R13}
203844f0 : 7245203a : SUBVC   R2,R5,#&3A         ; =":"
203844f4 : 20726f72 : RSBCSS  R6,R2,R2,ROR PC    ; *** Shift by R15
203844f8 : 6d6f7266 : SFMVS   F7,2,[PC,#-408]!   ; *** PC writeback
203844fc : 73352520 : Undefined instruction
20384500 : 3625203a : Undefined instruction
20384504 : 34250073 : STRCCT  R0,[R5],#-115
20384508 : 25203a78 : STRCS   R3,[R0,#-2680]!
2038450c : 203a7335 : EORCSS  R7,R10,R5,LSR R3

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Time: Sat Jan 16 14:08:38 2016
Location: Offset 00002310 in module SysLog
Current Wimp task: Unknown
Last app to start: BASIC -quit "SCSI::HardDisc4.$.!BOOT.RO500Hook.Res.Configure.ScrSavers.!SprBounce.!RunImage" 537177152

R0  = 000000d4 R1  = 2034664d R2  = 00000005 R3  = 20346a08
R4  = 20384500 R5  = 000000d4 R6  = 20345b54 R7  = 00000000
R8  = 0000003a R9  = 0000001f R10 = 2038c674 R11 = 0000000b
R12 = 203462f4 R13 = fa207da4 R14 = 00000073 R15 = 2038e6ac
DFAR = 000000d4  Mode SVC32  Flags Nzcv If   PSR = 80000193

2038e664 : 7affff57 : BVC     &2038E3C8
2038e668 : ea00001b : B       &2038E6DC
2038e66c : eb000043 : BL      &2038E780
2038e670 : e1b05000 : MOVS    R5,R0
2038e674 : 028f5088 : ADREQ   R5,&2038E704
2038e678 : e1510003 : CMP     R1,R3
2038e67c : 2a000016 : BCS     &2038E6DC
2038e680 : e4d50001 : LDRB    R0,[R5],#1
2038e684 : e3300000 : TEQ     R0,#0
2038e688 : 0affff4e : BEQ     &2038E3C8
2038e68c : eb000027 : BL      &2038E730
2038e690 : eafffff8 : B       &2038E678
2038e694 : e1b05000 : MOVS    R5,R0
2038e698 : 028f5064 : ADREQ   R5,&2038E704
2038e69c : e1510003 : CMP     R1,R3
2038e6a0 : 2a00000d : BCS     &2038E6DC
2038e6a4 * e4d50001 * LDRB    R0,[R5],#1
2038e6a8 : e3500020 : CMP     R0,#&20            ; =" "
2038e6ac : 3affff45 : BCC     &2038E3C8
2038e6b0 : eb00001e : BL      &2038E730
2038e6b4 : eafffff8 : B       &2038E69C
2038e6b8 : eb00001c : BL      &2038E730
2038e6bc : eaffff41 : B       &2038E3C8
2038e6c0 : e0432001 : SUB     R2,R3,R1
2038e6c4 : ef0200dc : SWI     XOS_ConvertInteger4
2038e6c8 : 7affff3e : BVC     &2038E3C8
2038e6cc : ea000002 : B       &2038E6DC
2038e6d0 : e0432001 : SUB     R2,R3,R1
2038e6d4 : ef0200d4 : SWI     XOS_ConvertHex8
2038e6d8 : 7affff3a : BVC     &2038E3C8
2038e6dc : e35f0000 : CMP     PC,#0
2038e6e0 : e3a0e000 : MOV     R14,#0

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Time: Sat Jan 16 14:08:38 2016
Location: Offset 00002310 in module SysLog
Current Wimp task: Unknown
Last app to start: BASIC -quit "SCSI::HardDisc4.$.!BOOT.RO500Hook.Res.Configure.ScrSavers.!SprBounce.!RunImage" 537177152

R0  = 00000008 R1  = 2034664f R2  = 00000006 R3  = 20346a08
R4  = 20384505 R5  = 00000008 R6  = 20345b54 R7  = 00000000
R8  = 0000003a R9  = 0000001f R10 = 2038c674 R11 = 0000000b
R12 = 203462f4 R13 = fa207da4 R14 = 00000073 R15 = 2038e6ac
DFAR = 00000008  Mode SVC32  Flags Nzcv If   PSR = 80000193

2038e664 : 7affff57 : BVC     &2038E3C8
2038e668 : ea00001b : B       &2038E6DC
2038e66c : eb000043 : BL      &2038E780
2038e670 : e1b05000 : MOVS    R5,R0
2038e674 : 028f5088 : ADREQ   R5,&2038E704
2038e678 : e1510003 : CMP     R1,R3
2038e67c : 2a000016 : BCS     &2038E6DC
2038e680 : e4d50001 : LDRB    R0,[R5],#1
2038e684 : e3300000 : TEQ     R0,#0
2038e688 : 0affff4e : BEQ     &2038E3C8
2038e68c : eb000027 : BL      &2038E730
2038e690 : eafffff8 : B       &2038E678
2038e694 : e1b05000 : MOVS    R5,R0
2038e698 : 028f5064 : ADREQ   R5,&2038E704
2038e69c : e1510003 : CMP     R1,R3
2038e6a0 : 2a00000d : BCS     &2038E6DC
2038e6a4 * e4d50001 * LDRB    R0,[R5],#1
2038e6a8 : e3500020 : CMP     R0,#&20            ; =" "
2038e6ac : 3affff45 : BCC     &2038E3C8
2038e6b0 : eb00001e : BL      &2038E730
2038e6b4 : eafffff8 : B       &2038E69C
2038e6b8 : eb00001c : BL      &2038E730
2038e6bc : eaffff41 : B       &2038E3C8
2038e6c0 : e0432001 : SUB     R2,R3,R1
2038e6c4 : ef0200dc : SWI     XOS_ConvertInteger4
2038e6c8 : 7affff3e : BVC     &2038E3C8
2038e6cc : ea000002 : B       &2038E6DC
2038e6d0 : e0432001 : SUB     R2,R3,R1
2038e6d4 : ef0200d4 : SWI     XOS_ConvertHex8
2038e6d8 : 7affff3a : BVC     &2038E3C8
2038e6dc : e35f0000 : CMP     PC,#0
2038e6e0 : e3a0e000 : MOV     R14,#0

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