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Re: HP 9000 Series 332 support. Hardware request.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:40 AM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 4MB should be enough - certainly with 1744K free. I suspect its likely
> there is a serial console issue. Do you have hardware control lines
> enabled?
I will check that setting on the config switches. I am using a cable that
should have them and the USB serial should as well. I thought I set
it to ignore those, but I could have the sense of the switch wrong.
> As a test you might want to configure rc.conf and fstab (with swap :)
> on the disk and see if the system comes up multiuser. It would
> definitely confirm if its a serial console issue...
I'm using the miniroot right now, but might have to try to make an installed
file-system image or something. I need to spend some more time testing it.
Getting kernels into the miniroot and copied over to be an emulated did is a
pain right now.
> I'd probably look at attaching genfb(4) - all you need is a frame
> buffer address, width, height, depth & stride & away you go...
I'll look into that if it isn't a 1 bit topcat as Miod mentioned.
Thanks for the feedback.
-Andrew
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