Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 16:28:08 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current AS200 state Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809191622150.392-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Eq0w4IK00YUq034nc0@andrew.cmu.edu>
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote: > > Now that the alpha port is fairly managable from an outsiders point of > view, I was wondering as to a few current parts of it's state, not so > much what's in the source tree now (I watch that like a hawk ;) but you > developer's intentions over the next month. I'd like to try my hand at > any of the necessary points on the AS200 if I can. > > E2 support - NetBSD has it, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to port? > > Floppy/Sound - Only linux has this, it's a long-shot for me, but if I can > get E2 to work, it'd be a good finishing point, no? > > > My question is, of course, is this on anyone's near-term ToDo list? > I'm wondering if many Alpha's have much care for the latter, but from > what I've seen many are shipped with E2/E3 cards and video display is > always nice 8). Right now there is no TGA support at all, let alone E2 (I am assuming this is a TGA card?). It should be possible to hammer it into syscons though since with the recent vesa support, it can handle bitmapped console displays fairly easily. Floppy support would involve implementing the necessary hooks for ISA DMA (probably hard) and porting the fd driver to the new bus interface (pretty easy). Sound support is mostly a DMA issue too. Neither of these things are on my near-term todo list - I'm still struggling hard with 'make release' :-). If you want to tackle either of these jobs (or anything else on my whiteboard for that matter) then please go ahead and don't hesitate to contact me with questions if you don't understand anything. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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