Subject: Need info about KA630 console routines
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/13/1998 09:46:27
The NetBSD boot program uses the serial console directly on a KA630 (and
other KA6xx I guess).  It should instead use the ROM routines so that it
displays on whatever is the system console.  Does anybody here know
about the console ROM routines on the KA630?  I played with it and found
that the routine at 0x20040008 can be used to input a character, but I
can't find an output routine and I don't know if this is usable on all
versions of the firmare.

Someone please help.  Otherwise I'll have to put QDSS support in boot.

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