Subject: PMAXB-J Framebuffer support for DECstation 5000/240
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Chris Collins <ccollins@pcug.org.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/04/1998 11:10:12
Um....
Well - here goes my message (for the second time) - Sorry - but my mail
account here at ANU decided to swallow the outgoing message first time
'round. :)
Chris Collins wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> My name is Chris Collins, and I'm planning to attempt a port of Linux to
> the DECstation 5000/240 - Yes, I do know that this is a NetBSD Mailing
> list....
>
> The problem is that I am planning to use NetBSD as the running OS on the
> port machine so I can do the port, however, I've discovered that there
> isn't any official support for the framebuffer in this machine - So I am
> forced to run Ultrix until support can be written/hacked together.
>
> If anybody has any programming documentation for the PMAXB-J or has a
> driver for it, could they please email me.
>
> Also - I am interested in writing the Driver for this framebuffer for
> NetBSD should it be that nobody else has done it, or has the hardware.
>
> Thankz for you time.
>
> Chris Collins
> (ccollins@pcug.org.au)
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