Subject: known pmax bugs and features in 1.1..
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/23/1995 17:21:29
For those who haven't heard this yet:
(if I've forgotten any, please let me know :)
1. Serial consoles don't work.
2. The ASC driver (turbochannel scsi) sometimes loses output
data (!). Symptoms of this are kernel printf warnings
like the following:
asc: DMA_OUT, fifo resid 1, len 0, flags 0x12
3. On the 3100/2100, the Ethernet driver breaks under heavy load.
I don't know if the ``old'' driver is any better.
4. On the 3100/2100, the glass-tty driver doesn't work on
monochrome framebuffers. X may or may not work.
5. For machines with SCC chips (turbochannel machines except the
5k/200), the mapping from device minor number to SCC channel
follows the hardware channel topology -- unlike Ultrix.
Minor number Hardware Connected to
NetBSD Ultrix channel
0 2? scc 0 B channel Bulkhead connector "2"
1 1? scc 0 A channel mouse port
2 1? scc 1 B channel mouse port
3 0? scc 1 A channel keyboard port