On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:01:30PM +0100, Richard Ingram wrote:
> > SC CPUs still aren't supported but the basic framework to fix the SC
> > problems
> > is now in the kernel. And without benchmarking I dare to say it's faster
> than
> > RISC/os. Most important, several satisfied customers ...
>
> Thats good news, and I hope to be one of these customers soon.... after
> getting
> my Sun3 setup with the latest NetBSD.
>
> > Won't be hard to support (E)ISA gfx cards as replacement, btw.
>
> Now that is interesting, I recall a discussion about this a while back either
> here or on comp.sys.mips. So how would it work - can't remember what the
> outcome was. I have no technical docs on the 4000 series Magnums - though have
> the origional tech docs for the R3000 Magnums (which I also have one of).
The problem is can we setup the machine for booting without having such
a card? The (E)ISA gfx card stuff by itself is not to hard.
Ralf
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