> > From: Adam Glass <adamg@microsoft.com>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 09:28:37 TZ
> > 
> > actually this is not enough.  You need to get reads on the /dev/console 
> > which opens /dev/prom (essentially) to work.  I rewrote large portions 
> > of the driver but didn't get anywhere on input.  I'll play with your 
> > nmi change.  I thought i had simulated that but maybe not.
> 
> Right.  Sorry if I got your hopes up too much.  I can not yet get
> the system sufficiently alive to open /dev/console.
> 
> I have an idea for the temporary prom console input:
> 
> Use a ring buffer that gets filled by a polling function called
> by hard_clock() i.e.:
> 


Yeah...i tried a scheme like this using timeout(), and the prom
maygetchar() function.  it just didn't work, though i should probably
take another look at it.

I actually have a system alive enough to boot, exec /sbin/init which
opens /dev/console which (effectively) opens /dev/prom, requesting
single-user mode, execs /bin/sh, prints a shell prompt, and blocks on
read() afterwards.  I'll commit all of the changes necessary to get
that far as soon as I fix either the prom console driver or the zs
driver I ported such that /dev/console input/output actually works.

Getting a shell prompt and being able to do a 'ls' is the only measure
of success.  We are *SO* close.....

later,
Adam

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