Re: Booting NetBSD/dreamcast with GDEMU

On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Vivianne Ombretta wrote:

> A couple years ago, someone posted asking about how to boot a NetBSD CD on a 
> Dreamcast with a GDEMU installed (an optical drive emulator).
>
> I've successfully booted it on my Dreamcast with a GDEMU by taking the 
> generated `data.raw` generated by `dc-burn-netbsd` and converting it to a cdi 
> with cdi4dc (https://github.com/Kazade/img4dc).

Nice!

> By the way, are the kernels compiled with mouse support by default now or no? 
> Thanks.
>
> Vivianne

Looks like it is. I see this in the GENERIC conf:

 	mms*		at maple? port ? subunit ?
 	wsmouse*	at mms? mux 0

But it's pretty limited because I still have not seen X actually working
on NetBSD/dreamcast.

Charlotte