Subject: Re: port-sun3/2163: [dM] sun3 blinkenlights are boring
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/07/1996 10:41:20
>> (It amazes me how interested people are in blinkenlights 8^)
> Hm, considering the Sun 4/390 which servers as a server to the
> department I work for: can somebody please make this MI to the point,
> that it works on Sparc VME machines, too? :-)

Sure, just lend me a machine to do it on :-)

More seriously, there is very little that could be made MI.
sys/arch/sun3/sun3/leds.c is about it, and there isn't much in there.
I suppose it could be pulled out into sys/dev/leds.c or some such, but
that would assume exactly 8 (or at least at most 8) LEDs, which may not
be true on all machines with such blinkenlights.

If you want, I'll be glad to have a stab at porting it to the SPARC; I
can perhaps even check that it compiles.  But I can't test it; the only
SPARC machines with blinkenlights we have here are running SunOS and I
can't go casually rebooting them with NetBSD kernels just to play.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu