On Mon, 19 May 1997, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> Amit Gupta wrote:
> > 
> > Any chance of a RiscBSD related Wakefield show report, for those of us who
> > sadly couldn't make it?
> 
> Ok, here's a brief list of what I saw :-
> 
> Digital NC's, running Java nicely, booting off one of the RPC.

  And running it much faster than RPCs running RiscOS. This was an 
interpreter. A JIT compiler is planned.

> Floating point library was there I think but I forgot to check.

  Yep, it was. Mark said it was running at just above FPA11 speeds.
posibly restricted to a binary only release at first.

> Mark was actually working on a new IDE driver for either ICS or Simtecs
> card (can't remember which)

 Simtec

 Mark also mentioned that he's been asked by DIGITAL to get the ATAPI 
stuff working again, so that'll be done pretty quickly.


  As an aside, I've just compiled a -current kernel with ATAPI support by 
getting the old wd code from the mainbus dir in sys-1.2A-111096.tar.gz
on the ftp site, applying the rest of the old ATAPI patches by hand, and 
using the latest NetBSD generic atapi code.  This latest ATAPI stuff has 
support for audio discs, so I compiled xmcd using lesstif and the 
xmcd patches available from the same place as the NetBSD ATAPI patch.

  To my surprise it all seems to work!

Ale.