Subject: Re: New Z50 NetBSD kernel
To: Greg Hughes <gl2hughes@uwaterloo.ca>
From: billy ball <bball@tux.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/04/2002 19:19:11
Go greg! i know i'm eagerly waiting to test a build! and i must say that 
your work has made the z50 a very usable, economical device indeed... if 
your work is combined with the LCD/suspend/sound features, z50 users will 
have a truly nice NetBSD laptop!

thanks so much!

regards,

billy ball

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Greg Hughes wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm finally finished w/ school projects and I've got some time to work
> on this.
> 
> I'm currently setting up a cross-compile environment, so I'll be taking
> another stab at this later tonight.
> 
> - Greg
> 
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:57:34AM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, DP wrote:
> > 
> > > I was futzing with this over the weekend. It looks like vrip was replaced by
> > > vr4102ip. I tried attaching the vrdsiu driver to that, and it seemed to work
> > > OK but it bombed during compile (now I don't remember why)... It's a start
> > > at least.
> > >
> > > I was just messing around so this could be -way- off base. :-)
> > 
> > Well, it's definately more promising than where I'm at.  My guess, though,
> > is that the vr4102ip code is significantly different than the vrip code
> > that you can't just attach the driver to it.  It'll probably require some
> > modifications to Greg's code.
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
>