RE: Rookie questions about NetBSD/amiga

[Carlos Milán Figueredo <cmilanf%hispamsx.org@localhost>]

Hi John,

From: John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>
Sent: sábado, 9 de octubre de 2021 15:54
> Not sure about these, but if the WSCONS kernel works, then the regular
> docs about how to do this will work, too.
> 
> http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-
> 9/latest/amiga/binary/kernel/netbsd-WSCONS.gz

I though this wouldn't work on Amiga native chipset, but I was confusing wsfb with wscons. I loaded this kernel and it worked well, even by default I have now the grey over black I was looking for; also, vim is displaying his colors, love this on the Amiga. How can I modify the bootblock loader so I default to the WSCONS kernel?

> You can try the WSCONS kernel, and enable ttyE0-E3 in /etc/ttys, then
> add wscons=YES to /etc/rc.conf.

I will try :)

Thanks for the rest of the tips for building kernel and making the system more light weight.

From: port-amiga-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost <port-amiga-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost> On
Behalf Of Michael van Elst
Sent: sábado, 9 de octubre de 2021 19:27

Hi Michael!

> If you use the GENERIC kernel:
> The colormap has 32 entries, the first 4 are used for 2 bitplanes:
> grey, black, blue, white
> The program iteconfig can change the display parameters including depth
> and colormap.
> If you use the WSCONS kernel:
> The console code has fixed colors for 1,2 or 3 bitplanes.
> 1 -> black, grey
> 2 -> black, red, green, grey
> 3 -> black, red, green, brown, blue, magenta, cyan, grey

Really interesting information, thanks for sharing! What is the reason the WSCONS kernel is not the default for Amiga? Maybe it needs more memory than GENERIC?

Regards,
Carlos

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