Subject: Re: 1.5 Release documentation and Power-tec/PowerROM problems
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/12/2000 17:57:38
> > 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
> 	:)
> http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/RPCINST.gz

Well I think I have something that works. I have uploaded new install kernels 
for all arm32 machine types apart from A7000.
The URLs are:
http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/RPCINST.gz
http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/CATSINST.gz
http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/SHARKINST.gz

The SHARKINST kernel should start sysinst with the terminal type set to pc3.
The CATSINST and RPCINST kernels should start sysinst with the terminal type 
set to vt100.

Any volunteers for testing?

Mike