Subject: Re: GENERIC-29 and the PB160
To: Andrew Fyfe <bandr@best.com>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/30/1997 17:15:27
> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 ADAMGOOD@delphi.com wrote:
> 
> > I went and got the GENERIC-29 kernel, which I read on the list contains
> > PB support, and I can tell you that it does not get past preserving the
> > symbol table on a PB 160.
> 
> I have a PB 180, and have tried a number of kernels on top of the
> NetBSD 1.2.1 distribution, namely
>     PMTEST.961214.122.iv.ncr
>     PMTEST.961214.iv.ncr.mrg
> 	(http://www.lisanet.org/~hamada/Acti/Netbsd/netbsd.html)
> 
> I haven't had any trouble when using a serial console.  When booting
> on the powerbook directly, all but the last two get no farther than
> clearing the screen and printing a single line about symbols.  The
> last two, however, both appear to work without any trouble at all.
> 
> With the possible exception of netbsd-20, all the kernels appear to
> contain the relevant adb patches.  The two that work also include
> video patches from Michael Zucca (this appears to be the only
> difference between Takashi Hamada's PMTEST.961214.120.ncr which
> does not work and PMTEST.961214.122.iv.ncr which does) -- there may
> be something in those patches that's essential.  I haven't been
> paying enough attention over the last few months to know what is
> and isn't in the lastest kernel sources.

Hmmm....this is about the third time that I've heard this.  I believe that
Michael has posted about it himself, but it appears that Michael's intvid
code may have slipped out of -current or been broken in some way.  Maybe
he could take a look at -current source and see if it's still in there?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
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