Subject: Re: New sgimips snapshot for INDY/Indigo 2, dated 20020409
To: Rafal Boni <rafal.boni@eDial.com>
From: Robert Boehne <rboehne@attbi.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/16/2002 20:37:29
Rafal:

Why don't you post them, that way if I loose the patches
then I'll know where I can find them. :)
It looks like I'll have a couple more Indys by week's end
which will be handy for this sort of work.

Thanks,

Robert

Rafal Boni wrote:
> 
> In message <3CBBBD48.79BA0FA9@attbi.com>, you write:
> 
> -> sgimips NetBSD list wrote:
> -> >
> -> ...
> -> > You shouldn't need any type of media setting for the sq driver.  Remove
> -> > the "media ethernet" completely.
> -> >
> -> > A man page for sq(4) hasn't been written yet.  Looking at the driver code,
> -> > there isn't anything configurable for it--looks to be just a basic driver.
> -> > Rafal Boni wrote it, so if there's something really necessary to mention
> -> > about it having anything configurable he might chime in about it.
> -> >
> -> > -scott
> ->
> -> Thanks, taking out "media..." did help a bit.  I'm currently
> -> getting a copy of the XF86 4.2 cvs branch onto a local drive
> -> on the Indy.  I intend to see if I can get X working...
> 
> I've got patches to NetBSD's xsrc necessary to build the X server
> sitting on some machine, but I never got around to testing, as I
> never wrote the keyboard/mice drivers for the Indy/Indigo2, and
> X was never too high of a priority for me (my primary machine is
> a gfx-less Challenge S and the only machine with hopes of running
> an X server is the slooow 133 Mhz Indy 8-).
> 
> If you're interested in those (I haven't tested them lately, so I
> suppose some of the changes to xsrc between when I did them and
> now could have broken them, but they're probably a good starting
> point), I can mail them to you privately or post them to the list
> if there's more interest.
> 
> --rafal
> 
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