Subject: Re: Please, Build a new kernel for the Classic!
To: Alberto <xperm@alufis34.ffisic.uv.es>
From: John P. Wittkoski <jpw@netscape.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/24/1998 11:26:58
Alberto wrote:

> The problem that adbtest solves (and no one knows how...) and the other kernels
> do not, is that adbtest supports Classic Internal Video with minor errors,
> but just
> fine to work. The adbtest was developed by John P. Wittkoski (jpw@netscape.com).
> He has made new versions of it (the new HWDIRECT kernels) but none of  them
> work
> on the Classic II.
> 
> I'm currently running Netbsd 1.3, with the Generic#56 kernel as a serial Console
> with my powerbook (works fine, all the problems have desappeared...:
> congratulations!) but I
> would like to profit the Classic
> II screen also to run X and make other things... And that's why I want to demand
> you a favour. I would like somebody to build an hibrid kernel for me and
> others Classic
> II users that are hanging around with the ancient adbtest160: a kernel that
> should
> have all the recent code implemented in the GENERICs ones (the only ones
> that work with
> the 1.3
> release) and the video card management that the abdtest has. This is my
> idea: rebuild
> a Generic kernel using the video interface of the adbtest... I think it
> should work...

Unfortunately, I tried this already with the HWDIRECT kernels,
and did not have any luck. I added the intvidtest code changes
into a recent HWDIRECT kernel, and the kernel would NOT boot on a
Classic II. Sorry.

	--John