On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> The kernel are compiled out of -current; so you can just fetch
> the normal sources and compile. There are no diffs, everything
> you need are in the source tree.
> When talking about console support: The QVSS/QDSS drivers from
> 4.4BSD are already in the source tree, and they may be a good
> starting point. The DECstation port (pmax) does already have 

The QDSS/QVSS drivers are helpful (especially the font stuff) but not 
very pratical for porting.. On a DECstation teh PROM routines still work 
in MM mode (so i believe) ,and also the turbochannel framebuffer is still 
sufficiently different to be a problem.

Linux/VAX will probably implement a really nasty hack where you take it 
out of mm mode to print a char.(ugly)... I had something like this 
working about 2 days ago..(only a simple prog tho..)

Karl

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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering Student at the University of Canberra, Australia

Email: k.maftoum@student.canberra.edu.au