Subject: Re: pbsdboot & MobilePro700 (VR4102 - 54Mhz)
To: Jun Ebihara <jun@soum.co.jp>
From: Roy Wilson <rwwst6+@pitt.edu>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 03/23/2000 06:38:10
Jun,
I am just today going back to the problem, having been otherwise occupied.
I to determine the MobilePro 700 keyboard map soon and pass info (to Shin
Takemura if I remember correctly) along for inclusion in next snapshot
Roy Wilson
--On Thursday, March 23, 2000, 3:15 PM +0900 Jun Ebihara <jun@soum.co.jp>
wrote:r
> Does this MobilePro700 status change on 20000315 snapshot?
> Please teach me works well or not.
>
> From: Roy Wilson <rwwst6+@pitt.edu>
> Subject: Re: pbsdboot & MobilePro700 (VR4102 - 54Mhz)
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:40:01 -0500
>
>> Based on this comment (and some documentation tips), I downloaded netbsd
>> and pbsdboot, unzipped them, and shipped them to my MobilePro700
>> (VR4102), putting them on my Sandisk CF.
>>
>> I've tried selecting the MC-CSXX frame buffer and also tried (somewhat
>> blindly) to set some of the obvious parameters (e.g., width = 640 for a
>> MP700). In the first case, I get the following on the MP700 display:
>>
>> mem_cluster_cnt = 3
>> mem_clusters[0] = {0x0,0x1f5000}
>> mem_clusters[1] = ....
>> mem_clusters[2] = ....
>>
>> and then the system appears to hang (20 minutes w/o activity). In the
>> second case, I get garbage across the top of the screen and then system
>> hang.
>>
>> I nosed around in the pbsdboot c code but couldn't get a match on
>> "clusters". I've got VR4102 pdf's but nothing matched on "frame buffer".
>>
>> If I could get a description of each parameter that appears in the "user
>> define" frame buffer option, I could then test various values obtained
>> from documentation. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Roy Wilson
>> rwwst6@pitt.edu
>
> --
> jun ebihara