Any chance we'll see support for the trackpoint on the Z50 added to the
CVS tree in the near future?

Adam

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, FUKAUMI Naoki wrote:

> I'm busy so I can't spend enough time to write email/html, sorry ;)
> 
> At Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:33:28 -0500 (EST),
> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > OK...  So here's my quick and dirty review of the differences, on my IBM
> > z50, between NetBSD 1.5 and this latest snapshot (from yesterday) at:
> > 
> > http://kame.naobsd.org/snapshots
> 
> Yes. I made new snapshot. Some info is available at
>   http://kame.naobsd.org/snapshots/latest/README
> 
> (A part of) major changes are:
> (generic)
>   IP Filter is 3.4.25
>   Multicast/broadcast security issue was fixed
> (hpcmips)
>   VR series Audio Interface Unit driver is available
>   GENERIC kernel now support TX3922 cpu (and TX3922 kernel was removed)
>   GENERIC kernel now support kloader (in-kernel boot loader, see below)
>   hpcboot is available (in hpcmips/installation/ directory)
> 
> Sorry, I don't have enough time to read source-changes. So I don't know
> other changes.
> 
> > It detects an audio device when booting:
> > 
> > audio0 at vraiu0: half duplex
> > 
> > And it sort-of works :-)  esd doesn't like it, at least not completely.  I
> > get just weird static.  I can use sox to play a .au file.  I bet I can get
> > it to play wav files, too.  I'm still working on mp3 :-)
> 
> I heard from HAMAJIMA san,
>   Output supported
>   Input NOT supported
>   Only VR4121 was tested
> I think vraui driver will work on VR4111, VR4102. But I haven't tested yet.
> 
> > And, interesting enough, typing reboot doesn't actually reboot the entire
> > machine, just NetBSD :-)  It shuts down, and reloads the kernel, without
> > the side trip through Windows CE land.  Obviously you can still shutdown
> > and reboot into Windows CE if you want to.
> 
> It is kloader (in-kernel boot loader).
> 
> If you do reboot (or shutdown -r) then try to load /netbsd (default path)
> and directly jump to new kernel. (If it failed, simply boot Winows CE)
> 
> Halt (or shutdown -h or poweroff) is normal shutdown and boot Windows CE.
> 
> New kernel path is configurable in kernel config file.
> 
> (not this time snapshot, but) current code seems to do
>   If memory disk is root device, kernel path is set to "/mnt/netbsd".
>   http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/syssrc/sys/arch/hpcmips/hpcmips/machdep.c.diff?r1=1.72&r2=1.73&f=h
> 
> kloader is very nice feature :)
> 
> --
> FUKAUMI Naoki
>