Subject: Re: VS4000 kernel & boot(s)
To: Michael Kukat <michael@camaronet.de>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/24/2000 11:33:54
>
> 2) VAXstation 2000 MFM support is not compiled in in newer kernels. Does this
> have some good reason? I tried to enable this, but it is missing some files in
> -current. Ok, i didn't try to compile the 1.4.2-sources, just wanted to do so
> on my 4000/90, but this didn't work due to 1) :-)
>
VAXstation 2000 MFM has been broken for ages, and due to the very special
constraints the VAXstation 2000 has wrt accessing the DMA area it wasn't
just as simple as make it go after the SCSI fixes. I will look at it as
soon as I have a MV2000 set up for testing again.
-- Ragge