Subject: Re: port-sun3/2163: [dM] sun3 blinkenlights are boring
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/07/1996 11:30:19
On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:41:20 -0500 
 der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> wrote:

 > More seriously, there is very little that could be made MI.
 > sys/arch/sun3/sun3/leds.c is about it, and there isn't much in there.
 > I suppose it could be pulled out into sys/dev/leds.c or some such, but
 > that would assume exactly 8 (or at least at most 8) LEDs, which may not
 > be true on all machines with such blinkenlights.
 > 
 > If you want, I'll be glad to have a stab at porting it to the SPARC; I
 > can perhaps even check that it compiles.  But I can't test it; the only
 > SPARC machines with blinkenlights we have here are running SunOS and I
 > can't go casually rebooting them with NetBSD kernels just to play.

I've got a 4/260 at home ... maybe I'll play with it.  According to all 
of the documentation I have, and personal experience, it will Just Work, 
providing I can find the location of the LED register on the sun4 VME 
mainboard.

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