Motorola MTX604 status

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

After a long hiatus, I built a new snapshot from -current and updated
my MTX604 system.  On the whole it seems more stable.  At least it hasn't
blown up on boot (so far) like it would do occasionally.

The slide* may sometimes still hang, missing interrupts, but I haven't
really characterized the situation.  It's only happened once since
upgrading.  I was on NFS root updating the installation on the local
disks.

Haven't poked at SMP at all.

PPC-Bug doesn't initialize the VGA device (must be CL-GD543x) unless a
keyboard is attached, so the kernel reports vga* present but not
configured.  While under 4.99.xx, I tried attaching a monitor and keyboard
(with console on com0), but wscons still couldn't cope with it.  If I
get space, time, and ability to set it up again, I'll poke at it some
more.

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