In article <20060116123107.c1dda8d6.tonio@abravo.org>,
Antonio Bravo  <tonio@abravo.org> wrote:
>Hi folks!
>
>I've installed 3.0 on a SS20 biproc (Ross RT625) 100mhz + 166mhz, and
>it's running quite fine SMP.
>The box has the 8 Mb VSIMM, but X does run 8-bit only.The Xsun24 server
>doesn't support the cg14!
>That was kind of a dismay.OpenBSD (which runs only one cpu) does the
>24-bit, non-accel. since a while (uses their implementation of wscons in
>dev/cgfourteen.c )
>Linux too makes the X server talk 24-bit with the cg14.
>Well, what the heck with NetBSD?
>I built a kernel with the CG14_CG8 option, which did nothing.
>By searching the mailing list archive I found a lonely message, with a
>link to slighty different
>cgfourteen.c and cgfourteenvar.h, modified from a "der Mouse" previous code.
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2004/12/07/0003.html
>(Jakob Menzi, 12/07/2004)
>the files are still on his site:
>http://www.menea.ch/netbsd/cg14.tar.gz
>
>It compiles clean and now I have 24-bit on the cgfourteen.
>So with 448Mb ram and two or four cpu, the box makes for a nice desktop.
>
>Maybe that possibility could be documented on the FAQ ?

The problem is that nobody (who has access to a cg14) applied the patches
to current and sent us a diff file against the cg14 in the source tree.
If you do this, I will apply the changes.

christos