On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Erik Bertelsen wrote:

> Now the PB520 works (at least in single user) with a serial console.

ADB works if you use the ADBTEST#164 patches. The only drawback is that
PRAM is not read correctly. X does not work cause it cannot find any
screens. But the console _is_ working.

> I'm still in the process of transferring parts of the system from
> my IIcx to the PB, but at least some of the changes done by Scott
> Reynolds to the FPE seems to have helped as well.
> 
> At least, I can now mount my /usr partition, run fsck, df, du, ps
> and some of the utilities that failed miserably on the LC040 with
> the Japanese PB550 kernel made by Hamada.

I compiled my last PB5xx kernel yesterday from current sources (about
three days old). Compared to Takashis kernel the newer one does not
coredump that often any more. But unfortunately nearly all programs dump
core without any obvious cause often. So imho the blackbirds are not
really usable until now. Some tools (like ps) do not work at all (1.2
release version). 
 
> This is just to report that some of the efforts made by both Scott
> and by Allen seem to make the PB520 at least partly supported by
> NetBSD.

NetBSD/mac68k would not be what it is today without their work.

Again - great job!

Peter

         --- beam me up Scotty, this planet sucks ---                      
                                                        Plan B
Peter Kelm (kelm@physik.tu-berlin.de)

Technical University Berlin
Physics Department