Subject: Quadra-Friendly Video Card Kernels
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John Plotecher <jplotech@diisd.k12.mi.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/29/1996 16:13:59
Hello again! Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

I was going to pick up a simple video card for my Quadra 700, so I tried
a color kernel on ftp.macbsd.com in the colorkit. It booted and hung, I
think, right after it sensed nubus. (It was probably looking for the
card, and I don't have the card yet.) I've heard that the kernels fail
on a Q700 with a video card. The kernel I tried seemed to be from around
the 1.1 release. Would it be possible to take whatever module drives the
color video card (I think the README said it was grf_mv.c) and build a
current kernel with it? (Gee, then all I'd have to do is learn how to
build a kernel! :-)

Thanks so much for your help.

John Plotecher
jplotech@diisd.k12.mi.us