Subject: Re: PX/PXG Install kernel support was: Re: Booting DECstation 5000/125...
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/31/2000 11:50:50
Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu> wrote:

> > 1.5 will be the first release containing a functional `px' driver.
> 
> 	Define functional. Still only basic console support, accelerated

The driver provides basic console support. The old driver existed to eat
interrupts.

> console and/or X support? I'm assuming Xpxpmax hasn't been pulled up, I
> can't find it in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/Incoming as was pointed to in a
> previous posting. 

Xpxpmax has never been made /generally/ available - its insides are a tangled
mess, and it doesn't work properly.