Hi Paul,
Myself and Chris Nott are the port maintainers of the Linux/VAX port. I
thought I may send you a quick mail to discuss whether you are aware of
any similarities between the DECstations and the VAXstations... Saves us
re-inventing the wheel...
We too have run into the wall called lack of documentation, and a lot of
work has come from the NetBSD and 4.4BSD implemtations.
Specifically, I have heard the consoles are very similar, do you know of
where I can get some documentation? i.e. NetBSD only support serial
consoles... (easy.. uses protected registers). and the ROM routines only
work in physical mode. The only vague implemtation I have is from 4.4BSD
, with the Q-BUS console that looks roughly similar..
Hopefully we'll be able to assist each other in the ports!
Cheers
Karl
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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering Student at the University of Canberra, Australia
Email: k.maftoum@student.canberra.edu.au
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