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A few things since my last update..

Mostly I've been re-organizing alot of the code to deal
with future
improvements.  I've fixed MPIC detection on the mcp750 and
the F40, as well as
fixed some problems with interrupts on the Powerstack E1. 
Prep now has
timecounter support, as well as full root device detection
on motorola machines.

we ethernet on prep:  It would appear that only on the 7248,
we ethernet will
not work unless you initialize the VGA.  I've stripped the
VGA reset code out
of the com0 boot loader, and made a new one with both com0
and vga reset.  This
way the com0 bootloader will work properly on some of the
wierder machines like
the F40.

PCi bridge cards should now work.  Specifically, I have
tested it with a 4-port
fxp ethernet card.

Also, the powerpc port has been switched to gcc4, so 4.0
will ship with gcc4.

And the current todo list:

1) Support for RS6k/CHRP style machines, ie the mcp750 and
7025-F40
- We are getting there..  shouldn't be long now.
2) Reboot support for the 7024/7025 models.
- Getting there
3) Power control, including power off on halt -p
- Should be easy to do.. just haven't done it yet.
4) Power management
- Waiting for new power management API.
5) X server support for the 7248
- Not likely to happen soon.  I'm thinking I might tackle
this after the x.org
import.  No sense in doing it twice.  It's also not very
high on my list.
6) Bootable CDROM image
- No progress on this.
7) Audio support for the machines that have it via pnpbus
- No progress here.
8) Create pnpbus device for the PCMCIA on the thinkpad
- No progress
9) Webpage FAQ and cleanup
- No progress
10) floppy support (don't hold your breath)
- Still not holding breath
11) SMP support (dependant on #1)
- Waiting for 1.



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Tim Rightnour <rootgarbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/

You wrote:
> PCi bridge cards should now work.  Specifically, I have
tested it
> with a 4-port fxp ethernet card.

Does this include support for the Adaptec ANA-6944/TX? This
is a 4-port 
tlp ethernet card, so it has four Digital 21140 attached to
an Digital 
21152 PCI bridge.

> And the current todo list:
>
> 1) Support for RS6k/CHRP style machines, ie the mcp750
and 7025-F40
> - We are getting there..  shouldn't be long now.
> 2) Reboot support for the 7024/7025 models.
> - Getting there
> 3) Power control, including power off on halt -p
> - Should be easy to do.. just haven't done it yet.
> 4) Power management
> - Waiting for new power management API.
> 5) X server support for the 7248
> - Not likely to happen soon.  I'm thinking I might
tackle this after
> the x.org import.  No sense in doing it twice.  It's
also not very
> high on my list.
> 6) Bootable CDROM image 
> - No progress on this.
> 7) Audio support for the machines that have it via
pnpbus
> - No progress here.
> 8) Create pnpbus device for the PCMCIA on the thinkpad
> - No progress
> 9) Webpage FAQ and cleanup
> - No progress
> 10) floppy support (don't hold your breath)
> - Still not holding breath
> 11) SMP support (dependant on #1)
> - Waiting for 1.

Is there any way I can help, such as testing or providing
remote machine 
access? As I have a 7248, I'm specifically interested in
point 5 of 
your list above...

Regards,
Andreas.

On 03-Jul-2006 Andreas Mueller wrote:
> Does this include support for the Adaptec ANA-6944/TX?
This is a 4-port 
> tlp ethernet card, so it has four Digital 21140
attached to an Digital 
> 21152 PCI bridge.

I suspect it will work. Actually, I'd be surprised if it
did not, and want to
hear about it either way.  (My test card was 4 fxp's behind
I think a 21150
bridge)

>> 5) X server support for the 7248
>> - Not likely to happen soon.  I'm thinking I might
tackle this after
>> the x.org import.  No sense in doing it twice. 
It's also not very
>> high on my list.
>
> Is there any way I can help, such as testing or
providing remote machine 
> access? As I have a 7248, I'm specifically interested
in point 5 of 
> your list above...

Hrmm.. Is that something people are actually interested in? 
I mean it's neat
and all that to run X on it, but it never seemed like
something I would want to
do for a long period of time.  Do you really want to run
your 7248 as a desktop?

Right now the biggest way people can help, is to test boot
kernels that I will
occasionally post links to on the list.  Some of my changes
are pretty
far-reaching, and it's best to test it on as many machines
as possible.  This
is especially true for machines I don't own.  I own only a
7248, a 7043-100 and
a 7024-E20.

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Tim Rightnour <rootgarbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/

On 02-Jul-2006 Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 2) Reboot support for the 7024/7025 models.
> - Getting there

Done.. Just committed it.  It's currently a bit of a hack,
but it will at least
make the machines more useable until a real solution is
found.  (Basically the
machine is powercycled, instead of rebooted via an automatic
powerup time set 2
minutes in the future)

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Tim Rightnour <rootgarbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/