Subject: Re: PRAM & the Time Manager & interrupts
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Julian Bean <jules@mailbox.co.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/12/1996 18:48:34
At 5:21 pm 11/3/96, Ken Nakata wrote:
>> On the origonal question (how to clear video interrupts), try debugging
>> what a live MacOS system does to clear interrupts. It's a bit gross
>
>Isn't the on-board NuBus firmware supposed to take care of it?  In a
>long-run, it might be better to utilize the on-board firmware, but it
>means we are going to have to implement many more Mac ROM emulation
>routines than we do now (my impression is that the on-board firmware
>calls ROM routines rather casually).  And of course, this is probably
>a prerequisit for color X server.

Nubus firmware?  Is there any on non-nubus macs?  The machine's I'm hacking
interrupts on, may not have any....

Jules


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