Hi folks,
Michael Engel wrote:
> as some of you might know, Karsten Merker and I have been working on
> framebuffer console/keyboard/mouse support for the DECstations during the
> last weeks. Our work is still based on 2.1.131 and also needs lots of
> work but I wanted to give a short status report.
Thanks so much for your status report - perhaps you could also put it up on
the web site. Reports like these are terrific for everyone, and inspire us
to do some more work on the port :-)
> What works for us now:
> - framebuffer console support for the MAXINE onboard framebuffer (1024x768
> with 8 bit color depth)
> - Access.Bus keyboard and mouse (LK501 and VSXXX-BB/GB) - mostly. There seems
> to be some packet loss on the Bus left ... sometimes the mouse jumps ...
> - PMAG-BA rudimentary support (color map still garbled, black text on pink
> background ;-)) - since yesterday evening ;-)
...you could set a whole new ergonomic standard with black text on pink
background ;-)
> - framebuffer X11 3.3.2 (?) server works with both graphics adapters
Yay!
> What I'm currently working on:
> - integrating the code in 2.2.1
> - eliminating the packet loss on Access.Bus
> - keyboard/mouse driver for non-AccessBus (zs/dz-based) DECstations
> - support for the PMAGB-B graphics card
> - non US keyboard mappings
>
> Sorry, no patch yet but I promise to publish one as soon as I get the
> code running with 2.2.1.
It's always a struggle to keep up with kernel releases when you're doing a
big piece of development. I'm sure we're all willing to be patient :-)_
> Any ideas what else to support are welcome. No, I don't have any docs on
> the PMAG-E and -F ;-).
I don't think anyone does... though I remember someone posting something
about one of these way back in the past...
> Additionally, we had the idea to run decstation.unix-ag.org on a
> DECstation running Linux as this would be a nice real-world test (it's
> currently running on a Pentium-166 with FreeBSD). This should also
> happen this week and - of course - I'll also bring the web pages up
> to date (finally ... sorry, I had to get my mathematics diploma - this
> was unfortunately more important ;-)).
Congratulations!
Regards,
Paul
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