Subject: Re: 4.4lite QDSS driver
To: Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/01/1995 09:17:01
> 
> Does anyone have any take on the difficulty involved in porting the
> QDSS driver from 4.4lite to NetBSD?  I've got that hardware, and it sure
> would be nice to start making some progress towards eventually having
> an (abyssmally slow, but serviceable) X11 port for NetBSD/vax.  
> 
> Getting the QDSS console driver into NetBSD would start us on the path 
> to resurrecting the QDSS X server from X10 (did it survive through X11?) 
> and bringing it up to MIT's current code base.  It seems that then we'd
> have a pretty short path to getting X11R6 for NetBSD/vax.
> 
The QDSS driver was functional under X11R5; we have a couple of
MicroVAX 2000 here that uses it. It does not work under R6, though.
Maybe what should be done is to change the way it works in some
way, for example use mmap() instead?

-- Ragge