OK...  So here's my quick and dirty review of the differences, on my IBM
z50, between NetBSD 1.5 and this latest snapshot (from yesterday) at:

http://kame.naobsd.org/snapshots

Basically, it seems to have improved apm support.  Well, sort of, anyway.
When booting up, it tells you how much battery life you have left.
However, there still seems to be no apm binary on the sytem, so you can't
find out how much life is left in a battery unless you reboot :-)  Since
APM is APM is APM, could this be ported from x86?  You can put the system
to sleep by hitting the sleep button, but the LCD still remains on.  The
hpcmips FAQ lists the possibility of setting LCD to suspend by setting
ite8181_lcd_control_disable to 0 using gdb, but I have no clue how to do
that :-)  Anyone want to give me any hints before I go messing with a
running kernel? :-)

It detects an audio device when booting:

audio0 at vraiu0: half duplex

And it sort-of works :-)  esd doesn't like it, at least not completely.  I
get just weird static.  I can use sox to play a .au file.  I bet I can get
it to play wav files, too.  I'm still working on mp3 :-)

The mouse still does not work on the Z50.  Last time I tried to build from
CVS, and use Greg Hughe's patches for the mouse, I failed miserably.

Can someone with access to the official NetBSD source *please* fix this?
There's no reason why the mouse on the z50 should continue to go
unsupported.

And, interesting enough, typing reboot doesn't actually reboot the entire
machine, just NetBSD :-)  It shuts down, and reloads the kernel, without
the side trip through Windows CE land.  Obviously you can still shutdown
and reboot into Windows CE if you want to.

Those my first observations.

And please, if you do get the mouse working, let me know how!!! :-)

Adam

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, billy ball wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jun Ebihara wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > that audio driver code had commited into NetBSD-current.
> 
> has anyone verified that the driver works on the z50? 
> 
> bball
> 
>