On 2005-07-19 andrew@rubydemon.com wrote:

> I've been trying to get my Husky FEX 21 running netbsd/hpcmips.  It has a half
> vga (640x240) colour screen, MIPS TX3922 running at 129MHz, 16MB ram, running
> HPC-2000, 1 compactflash port, 2 pcmcia sockets, irda, a keyboard (open book
> style) and stylus.  It doesn't use a floppy or hard drive, but I managed to
> load up as much as I could on to a 1GB CF card and had a go with the nearest
> machine I could see that might be compatible (I guessed a sharp Mobilon HC-
> 4500 was the nearest... incorrectly, but all I needed to do was a hard reset).

  Last time I tried booting NetBSD on my PenCentra 200 (a TX3922 system)
it didn't even get to printing the copyright, and I don't think anything
has changed since then.  I have not been able to load anything past 1.5 on
it, although I haven't tried very often.  I suspect this is a generic
TX3922 issue (I was going to try to blink the led first thing in the
kernel to see if it gets that far, but haven't got around to it yet).  If
you use hpcboot, be aware that not all of the entries in the menu actually
correspond with settings (there is a list in one of the source files under
arch/hpc/stand/hpcboot; only those that match that list have settings).

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com