[Jason meant to forward this to the list. ]

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To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
Cc: apm@vipunen.hut.fi
Subject: Re: swap leakage? 
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 11:05:13 -0800

On Sat, 04 Nov 1995 11:48:14 -0700 
 Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:

 > apm@kikka.hut.fi (Antti Miettinen)  wrote:
 >  > You mean the hp300 port runs on hp400? I don't remember which models
 >  > we have at work, but they are HP/Apollo 400 series computers running
 >  > Domain/OS. I thought that I could not install NetBSD on them as the
 >  > WWW page on www.netbsd.org claims that 400 series configured to run
 >  > Domain/OS are not supported. Do you know whether the data is out of
 >  > date?

I suppose that statement is somewhat misleading.  I'll correct it.

 > If you have an HP keyboard, plug it into the HIL connector, configure
 > the prom to be in HPUX mode, and then boot NetBSD.

If someone can figure out where the UART (prolly an scn2681) on that 
keyboard controller lives, I'm certainly willing to make the necessary 
changes to the console driver to support that keyboard.  Herb is the 
Apollo export :-), so he'll have to tell me how to detect if a keyboard 
is actually there, etc.  (Reset, I'd assume, maybe some sort of 
cookie..)  It's be nice not to have to add an option.

I'm wanting to make the console driver more flexible, anyhow, to support 
the sgc framebuffers and the Domain keyboards.  I've started that a 
little.  The bootblocks for 1.1 will pass the select code of the console 
device to the kernel, thereby eliminating the need to know about all 
devices to find the console.  This is a step in the right direction, anyhow.

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