Subject: Re: Q40/Q40i/Q60 NetBSD port
To: =?windows-1253?B?UGhvZWJ1cyBSLiBEb2tvcyAo1u/f4u/yINEuIM30/Orv8ik=?= <ql.css@dokos-gr.net>
From: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
List: port-m68k
Date: 09/24/2005 20:23:18
Hi,

> Are there any developments on the Qx0 (Q40/Q40i/Q60) port front? If not, I'd 
> be willing to give it the old college try:-) Shoestring Linux that already 
> runs on it is painfully slow and not really suited for the Qx0. The good part 
> about the Qx0 is that almost everything is fixed both in the memory map, 
> interrupts as well as to the ability of accepting new hardware. The only 
> "problem" would be an PnP ISA implementation (for Network cards).  The 
> framebuffer device is already supported by XFree86 so that wouldn't be a 
> problem either (The sound capabilities are a joke to implement. Straight 
> forward dual 20KHz, 8 bit DACs)

Have you gotten anywhere with this?

BTW - if the way that the ISA ethernet cards are connected is anything 
like how they are connected to the Zorro bus, you might find the Amiga 
code for that useful.

John Klos