Subject: Re: PX/PXG Install kernel support was: Re: Booting DECstation
To: None <ad@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 09/05/2000 12:30:10
> >       Define functional. Still only basic console support, accelerated
>
> The driver provides basic console support. The old driver existed to eat
> interrupts.

	Excellent!

> > 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.

	Yes, I'm sure that's true, but it's still better than Xpmax which
panics
the machine with a TLB miss on a PX. (last I tried anyhow) Just
wondering.

	Without yours and Tohrus work on PXs, we wouldn't even have console
support. Thanks again.


	Chris