Re: Status of port-newsmips?

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

In article <200209151321.g8FDLQS30331%graham.enseeiht.fr@localhost>
chaput%enseeiht.fr@localhost wrote:

>    Has any of them managed to change the NVRAM ? My 3410 seems to
> boot fine, but just after the NewsOS banner, I have a message like
> 
> enter your registration number for 0x60cc3ec:

I think this massage is printed by NEWS-OS to keep its license,
and there is no hardware problem on your hardware.
(Sorry, actually I have few knowledge about NEWS-OS :-)

Anyway, NEWS machines uses the same NVRAM (m48t02) with SPARCstations
and you could replace it, but I heard rumor that the registration
program has y2k problem.

>    NetBSD can not boot neither, but I can't remember the message.
> I could make a test and send the result if anyone could help me.

3410's framebuffer is not supported and you have to use serial console.
It would have the same problem with 37x0, so please try boot images
in my previous post.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost