No QBUS in the "supported hardware devices"?
Jon Lindgren
Why is this?
-Jon
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emanuel stiebler
From: Jon Lindgren <jlin...@espus.com>
To: <port...@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 07:55
Subject: No QBUS in the "supported hardware devices"?
> I don't see a QBUS section under http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware
>
> Why is this?
Probably, because the title says:
"Busses supported by machine-independent code"
And the qbus is supported only on the port-vax at the moment ?
;-)
cheers,
emanuel
Jon Lindgren
[snip]
> Probably, because the title says:
>
> "Busses supported by machine-independent code"
>
> And the qbus is supported only on the port-vax at the moment ?
>
> ;-)
Aha!
Thanks.
Brian Chase
> > I don't see a QBUS section under http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware
> >
> > Why is this?
>
> Probably, because the title says:
>
> "Busses supported by machine-independent code"
>
> And the qbus is supported only on the port-vax at the moment ?
There's work on it going on in port-pmax as well. You mustn't forget the
Q-Bus based MIPS boxes DEC made.
-brian.
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emanuel stiebler
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Chase <b...@world.std.com>
To: emanuel stiebler <e...@ecubics.com>
Cc: Jon Lindgren <jlin...@espus.com>; <port...@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 09:39
Subject: Re: No QBUS in the "supported hardware devices"?
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>
> > > I don't see a QBUS section under http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware
> > >
> > > Why is this?
> >
> > Probably, because the title says:
> >
> > "Busses supported by machine-independent code"
> >
> > And the qbus is supported only on the port-vax at the moment ?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> There's work on it going on in port-pmax as well. You mustn't forget the
> Q-Bus based MIPS boxes DEC made.
No, I didn't ;-)
cheers,
emanuel
Chuck McManis
>Probably, because the title says:
>
>"Busses supported by machine-independent code"
>And the qbus is supported only on the port-vax at the moment ?
And hopefully we can change that when the Q-bus code is merged into the
PMAX port and my DECSystem 5500 will become another wonderful NetBSD platform.
--Chuck
Simon Burge
Simon Burge
Simon Burge wrote:
I've made a rather half-hearted attempt at 5500 support, but discovered
I know absolutely zip about vax console support. I can get a kernel to
boot and panic with "Console not supported." really easily :-(
Does anyone have any pointers to doco on the "System Support Chip" that
handles console I/O? There seems to be scattered references among the
ka650 code, but not much...
Simon.
Anders Magnusson
> I've made a rather half-hearted attempt at 5500 support, but discovered
> I know absolutely zip about vax console support. I can get a kernel to
> boot and panic with "Console not supported." really easily :-(
>
> Does anyone have any pointers to doco on the "System Support Chip" that
> handles console I/O? There seems to be scattered references among the
> ka650 code, but not much...
>
the CPU, but a MIPS use registers in the SSC. The bits in the SCC registers
is the same as the VAX registers with the same name; RXCS/RXDB/TXCS/TXDB.
Look at vax/gencons.[ch] on how to program it. You can take that code
and use it with very small changes. (mtpr's to pointers).
-- Ragge