Hi,
> Has the R3000 code been integrated into the 1.3.58 kernel yet?
Yes, I've got 1.3.59 with the R3000 stuff on my disk at home. The
R3000 stuff seems to be a bit "magic"; means though there is no visible
bug it somehow triggers another bug for the Acer making the keyboard
and floppy partially unusable for Acer. I suspect this might be the
same bug Stoned reported recently.
> It goes on to define TCSR_IE.. codes to enable timer interrupts.
> etc. It does not however give me any way knowing if this really is
> the right thing to be poking.
At least it sound like a reasonable place to poke around.
> The R4000 apparently has hardware timer interrupts built into CP0,
> but the R3000 doesn't seem to have this stuff at all. (The true frustrationg
> is that every place the R4000 is mentioned about timer stuff... there
> is not a single "pointer" or reference as to what to do if you want
> a timer interrupt on the R3000.)
Though not all members of the R4000 family have the c0_count register.
This is also why Linux doesn't use it (yet).
> Digital.com is sadly lacking here... DecStations happened before there
> was really a net to speak of - the documentation just doesn't seem to
> have made it onto the web -at least as far as I can tell. Any other ideas
> as to places to look?
There are NetBSD and MACH ports to DECstations. Probably the best reference
to get without asking DEC.
Ralf
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