Subject: Re: Powerbook 145
To: liu7 <liu7@girlstar.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/01/2002 12:13:17
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, dakidd wrote:
>
> > He's going to have the same troubles I had with the wscons stuff, and
> > your "rip out the FPU fakery" attempt (which I've got downloading from
> > the mail-server as I type this - let ya know what happens with it when I
> > get it down and passed over to the PB) is probably going to fail for him
> > completely due to the lack of a real FPU in the 145.
>
> I see. I can make another one quickly with FPU_EMULATE plus the same
> patch to cacheops. The fix for wscons is already in current and
> 1.6_BETA1 (and so should be in all the latest snapshots). Since Brian
> said the "internal video was detected" I figured he had that -- but
> maybe not. Brian, does that mean you got "intvid0", or just that it
> printed the boot messages ?

In any case, here find a stripped down kernel with FPU_EMULATE, fixes
for all the known problems, and the emulation options to run 1.4* and
1.5* binaries:

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/test/PowerBook/kern-PB145.tgz

Frederick