XIP port questions

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I have a little question im trying to get the answer to.

Im pretty familiar with xipport tools and all that, I have ported xip for my old device many times (Herald)
But what I just cant get the hang of is how to use it in kitchens available for polaris.

Im currently working on a little project of making my own kitchen, but I need to learn more on how to build the ported xip into the rom in polaris.

There are many great tutorials on xip porting, but most of them lacks the info I need to make it work for our device (polaris), well maybe I didnt find the correct one...

I have used swtos's kitchen witch can port certain builds (thx for that info swtos) but I need to know why it can only port certain builds, and how to use it (or make my own) to port xip from any builds.

Help here would be greatly appreciated

cheers

Extract XIP.bin from any rom you like.

PUT MSXIPKERNEL files and modules into \sys folder.
Put WINCENLS folder into \sys
Put os.nb from source rom into your ROM directory ,
make a cook ,
You 're ready

or you can remake xip.out file and port it directly into os.nb.payload, but
port address may vary ...

Hello,

when I put os.nb from kaiser ROM, I have a black screen just after splash.

any idea?

Originally Posted by M-Amine

Hello,

when I put os.nb from kaiser ROM, I have a black screen just after splash.

any idea?

yeah thats the problem im encountering too

but u need to put os.nb.payload

Originally Posted by swtos

Extract XIP.bin from any rom you like.

PUT MSXIPKERNEL files and modules into \sys folder.
Put WINCENLS folder into \sys
Put os.nb from source rom into your ROM directory ,
make a cook ,
You 're ready

or you can remake xip.out file and port it directly into os.nb.payload, but
port address may vary ...

can u not use m'relloc to take care of adress?

You MUST use mreloc !! and greloc for other sys files ....

Ok but how to use it ? that's THE question !

Use an other rom that works fine with your ppc. Check every file with mreloc
and put addresses from this file to the new one. Repeat this procedure for
all files into msxipkernel.
For nk.exe use mreloc for nk . With this one , i don't know any guide.
Just try and repeat....

You don't need to port a XIP.

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You don't need to port a XIP.
Just copy .ROM map from a working TC ROM and I copy metadata map too.
This is it!

allright

another question then

when i dump the xip with xipport
i get out folder
i do same with the new xip

i compare the folders in modules

in the new xip, i get more modules then I have in the original dumped

This is dumped old xip:


This is dumped new xip:


do I not include those?