>>> Another peculiarity: I don't see any serial activity when the Duo is docked
>>> (neither mini dock nor dock II) whereas I can boot the undocked Duo to
>>> serial console just fine.
>>
>>i don't think we support the dock at all...
>
>I found it peculiar that the serial ports (2!) are probed (?) just fine but
>cannot be used. On second thought, it may well be that the docks have their
>own set of peripheral chips and the Duo's internal ports are disabled when
>it is docked.

The I/O chips are split between the Duo and the dock if I remember rightly.
The serial and iwm probably really do live on the Duo itself. I think the
only thing on the dock is video, NuBus, and maybe another SCSI controller.

We should easily be able to support a docked machine. The devices all appear
in Slot $E (See the Apple Tech specs for the dock).

"Hot-swapping" a machine is a different matter. Since NetBSD does match/attach
once at boot, I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like switch between
the console at the LCD and the console at the Dock and vice-a-versa. Maybe a
daemon could check a "dock device" and then load the appropriate kernel
modules from user mode?

Still, just getting a machine which is "steady state" docked probably wouldn't
be that hard.

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