Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> So, I have this new laptop, a Sony PCG-Z505S.  Very nice all in all,
> and fairly resonably priced (around US$2.5k).
> (3.5lbs, 1" thick, 12.1" 1024x768 screen, built in fxp ethernet, USB,
> ...).

They are cool!  I considered buying one, but opted for the smaller 505TX.

> 1) the floppy is a USB floppy.  Booting from it (via the bios) works,
> but once NetBSD takes over the USB controller, it's game over (I
> haven't tried booting a kernel w/o usb support to see if the device is
> still there if we don't touch the USB controller..
>
> USB sees the floppy as:
>
>         Jun 29 13:03:19 thunk /netbsd: ugen1: Y-E DATA FlashBuster-U, rev 1.00/1.14, addr 2

The umass driver the FreeBSD people are working on should be able
to handle this.  It's not ready for inclusion in the NetBSD tree yet...

> 4) audio isn't supported by 1.4; it's some sort of neomagic audio chip:
>
> Neomagic product 0x8005 (audio multimedia, revision 0x20) at pci0 dev 8 function 1 not configured

Try and find the data sheets and I'll have a look.

    -- Lennart