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.
--
Colin Wood ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant Rice University
Information Technology Services Houston, TX