Subject: Re: Macbsd on Color Classic/ other Classics
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Coevoet Marc <mcoevoet@vub.ac.be>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/18/1995 10:20:58
> 
> > I've tested the Color Classic with the console_only kernel
> > (& booter 1.9)
> 
> > Moving ROMBase from 0x40a00000 to 0x1b80000.
> > Video address 0x50f40000 -> 0x8b80000.
> > <freezing...  No response from any of the keyboards,
> > the macsbug-restart-shutdown button neither>
> > 
> > So I guess it hangs in moving the video.
> > I disabled all inits etc, same result...
> 
> I don't know which kernel this is, but your problems sound like those of
> the serial console code which made it into 1.1. Right at that point the
> IO space gets moved, but the serial port's idea of where the chip is
> doesn't move. So it writes to the wrong place. The patch has been around
> for a while, though I'm not sure where the fixed kernels are.
> 
> If you have a kernel w/ the serial patch, then something weird's up. :-(

I used the scsi-sercon fixed kernel from the puma-macbsd site...

Marc
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