Re: current status report at 20090204

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:

> Hi! David,
>
> From: David Brownlee <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:54:53 +0000 (GMT)
>
>> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
>>
>>>  + Xserver works on my bebox.
>>>
>>>     patchs:
>>>       ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/xserver/
>>
>>  	Excellent stuff - are there any plans to get this into the main
>>  	tree? Is it likely to break other ports?
>
> I have't plan to merge by myself.
> If you have bebox and test OK, then please commit.

 	Unfortunately I don't have a BeBox, just a macppc box, so I can't
 	help with the testing, just stand on the sidelines & cheer :)

> It is to influence only bebox and prep, perhaps.  Both were tested by
> me.  I am living to bebox and prep now.  Moreover, s3 864 is not tested
> with other machines. However, no one might use an old card.

 	There seem to be a few more people with prep boxes, but I think
 	adding an X server to a port, even it it might have a few issues
 	left is a definite improvement :)

>>>       * But our kernel(GENERIC) is more large.  We support to boot only
>>>         floppy-disk.  You need to build for your customized tiny kernel
>>> 	 after patch.
>>
>>  	Could bebox use the ustarfs boot which can span multiple floppies
>>  	as used by i386/space/alpha etc?
>
> hmmm...
> BeBox's BootROM(firmware) reads only BeFS and Old-BeFS.  Also filename is
> kernel or kernel_joe.  Our kernel makes from 'boot+netbsd' image.

 	Hmm, it would need to have a boot loader which would then
 	load the kernel.  Just thinking alound here...

 	Can a standalone BeBox binary call into the BootROM to load
 	a file from a BeFS filesystem on a floppy? If so, you could
 	write a boot loader binary to the first floppy, then split
 	up the kernel and split it across that disk and as many
 	other disks as needed. The boot loader would load the kernel
 	parts into RAM and then jump into it. Still, quite a bit
 	of effort....




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