Subject: Re: HEADS UP : wscons kernel uploaded for testing
To: None <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/14/2001 15:10:00
>i've just uploaded a wscons RiscPC kernel (A7000/NC avail on request) in
>ftp.netbsd.org's  `pub/NetBSD/arch/arm32/snapshots' directory. The source
>code is in revision now and will hopefully be committed in the repository
>soon.

>Note that X wont work as are multiple virtual consoles... work is still in
>progress. There are some small keyboard troubles spotted by me as the
>wrong keyboard leds light up :) and the pound is missing for some odd
>reason as is the back quote ...

>The only keyboard supported now is the standard English one ... Are there
>other keyboards around / in use ?

Are you going to be able to make all the ports use a common consinit() ?

At the moment the footbridge based ones have their own version, which
contains lots of #ifdefs, but it does allow switching to a serial
console.

Robert