Subject: Re: P4 frame buffer support, et al.
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/16/1996 23:31:00
At 06:43 PM 2/15/96 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>Personally, I haven't gotten around to hacking on this yet. OpenBSD does
>have some support for pfour, but I didn't particularly like the
Yes, I have run OpenBSD on my machine, but the bwtwo performance is
less than reasonable. Apparently all of the text stuff goes through BIOS
(?) instead of the frame buffer. (Sorry I don't know the technical details,
so I may be way off base here). I'd rather run NetBSD anyway...
If there is anything I can to do help the effort (getting P4 support
in), please let me know. I can program in C, but have never done any work
with hardware at such a low level.
>I haven't hacked on it lately ... there are a couple of things I want to
>do to the si/sw driver, but it's been low on my priority list.
The 'sw' driver is probably the largest thing holding me back from
running NetBSD right now. I can get by using a terminal as the console, but
I can't live with poor disk performance.
Thanks for the reply!
Mike.
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