Subject: Re: 1.5 Release documentation and Power-tec/PowerROM problems
To: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/09/2000 10:28:38
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Mike Pumford wrote:

> >
> > > I can indeed but it won't be available till at least Monday. Building an
> > > install kernel requires a full 1.5_BETA install and it will take a day or so
> > > for my machine to build and install that.
> > >
> > Okay a 1.5_BETA install kernel is now at
> > http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/RPCINST.gz
> >
> Right this has now been updated. Its the same kernel but the terminal type now
> defaults to vt100 . I did have to modify the vt100 termcap entry slightly. It
> appears that the RiscPC console does not emulate the vt100 alternate character
> set so I removed these entries from the termcap.
>
> Do these modification need to be worked into a PR?

	Defintely. Thinking about it more it would be nice if the terminal
	type could be set automatically based on whether ths shark's pc0
	is found in dmesg. That way the ramdisk could be shared between
	machines.
	Would you be willing to look at that? (sample shark dmesg attached
	:)

                David/absolute
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