15 Dec
2012
15 Dec
'12
11:04 a.m.
On 15 December 2012 16:59, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
I'm pretty sure the loader works as such un the rtVAX, the networki
interface should be supported so far as I've read, but I think the SLU's
are not and so there is nothing to see...
[...]
...so I think the Console SLU is the problem, one
needs a decent
documentation for the rtVAX300 that includes the programming manual for the
SLUs and the NetBSD source to make the Console driver work.
That shouldn't be to much work.
As long as I'm not finding a person that's a little bit involved in
VAX Assembler and is using NetBSD on VAXen, my trip ends here.
Maybe Dave is interested since he has at least such a rtVAX Card.
NetBSD's boot consinit() uses vax_boardtype to determine what console
calls to use:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/vax/boot/boot/consio.c?rev…
If the rtVAX ROM console is 'close enough' to a normal VAX then it may
be a simple case of adding its boardtype to the switch statement. If
docs are not available it may even be worth adding a 'default' to each
of them in turn to see if it matches any of them (I'd start with a 630
:)
My level of VAX assembly is probably at the "can recognise it two
times out of three", but I'm happy to help with the boot console
poking...