On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Sebastian Maus wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Kjetil B. Thomassen wrote:
> > I can test the Power-tec (ptsc?) if someone solves the problem of making
> > a formatting a drive for NetBSD, as I don't have a valid NetBSD
> > partition any more.
>
> For these kinds of tests I suggest an INSTALL kernel with the relevant
> podule support compiled in. From that you can easily test whether mounting
> a device (i.e. CD-ROM) on such a podule works. CD-ROMs never worked
> properly on the cosc, for example (reading files stuffed the machine).
> This would be the easiest way for me to test cosc as I would not have to
> upgrade my 1.4 installation first. Or is it possible/recommended to run
> -current kernels with 1.4 userland?

As long as the kernel has "options COMPAT_14" turned on (oh, and
old-bootloader compatibility), it should Just Work.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>