On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> >Right; they are wired up for keyboard and mouse only.
> >
> >Note that if they ever get ttys, you can use the cs_wr5_dtr and cs_wr5_rts
> >fields to indicate that those ttys DON'T have DTR & RTS pins. So all
> >should be well.
>
> Surely This change applies to IOASIC Decstations, too?  DEC sold a
> dongle which allowed wiring up DECstation mouse/keyboard port as
> terminal lines (without modem signals, obviously, and not at the same
> time as a framebuffer console. At least not with input:))
>
> Some netbsd/pmax users use/used that setup, and used to file PRs when

Looks like part of the message got eaten somewhere.

Yes, I think this'd apply to the Decstations too. So we will need to
support tty's on them.

I think supporting that is part of the reason I did the cs_wr5_{dtr,rts}
stuff. Set them to zero, and the port lacks those pins, so it shouldn't
matter that the other port writes reg 5 (the other part being stuff Apple
did).

Take care,

Bill