> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:00:35 +0000 
>  Victor Hui <vchui@dera.gov.uk> wrote:
>
>  > Now, I believe my Alpha can be successfully netbooted.  However,
>  > it only went as far as ...
>  > 
>  > cpu0 at mainbus0: 1D 0 (primary) 21064A-3 (pass 2)
>  > tcasic0 at mainbus 0
>  > tc0 at tcasic0: 25 MHz clock
>  > ioasci0 at tc0 slot 7 offset 0x0: fast mode
>  > le0 at ioasic0 offset 0xc0000: address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>  > le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
>  > scc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x10000
>  > scc1 at ioasic0 offset 0x18000
>  > SWITCHING TO SERIAL CONSOLE!
>  > 
>  > then hanged!
>
> It didn't hang.  It switched to the serial console.  Just like it said.
> That's why Ross added the warning in the code :-)
>
> NetBSD doesn't yet have a fully-integrated display console driver for
> that platform, tho an experimental one can be used with the TCWSCONS
> kernel.  Unfortunately, with that kernel, the serial ports can't be
> used for anything else (that's why it's still "experimental" :-)


I'm not sure if you need this, but I built a TCWSCONS kernel from 1.4M
kernel sources. See:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/misc/tcwscons.gz

--Ross