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- From: osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
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- >If it's easy to select the ECS mode
- >from software, loadbsd could be modified to do this. This would be
- >a workaround until the kernel can initialize things properly.
-
- Wasn't there something about doing a LoadView(NULL); that would cause the AGA
- chip set to switching into ECS mode? My memory fails me.. core dumped.
-
- > If the fast memory on the A4000 starts at 0x07000000 or higher, the current
- >kernel will think it's running on an A3000 and attempt to configure the
- >hardware as such.
-
- The Magnum starts at 0x08000000, so it _was_ meeting this requirement, against
- our wishes ;-).
-
- >The next kernel will have a patchable location
- >(_a3000_flag) that can be patched to 0 to disable the A3000 configuration
- >setup. I suspect that the A4000 may need a special configuation setup.
-
- I'm pretty sure it's gonna be ugly for now.
-
- > Since I've been doing the 040 support, it does mean something to me and
- >I will do what I can to help get it running on the A4000. Since I don't
- >have any access to an A4000, it's not too easy to do.
-
- It's the thought that counts ;-).
-
- > If you are talking about the dcp program by Chris Hooper, it should be
- >available at ftp.mtu.edu in the directory /pub/cdh. It's much easier to
- >use dcp than filetodev [I never bothered trying to use filetodev.]
-
- This is what I've used.. BTW: how come it's not on ftp.eunet.ch in the contrib
- or bin directory? It's so handy, that we should have it available with the
- distribution material, rather than having the same "Where is dcp" question
- asked (for those who don't read the FAQ).
-
- > I've got the 53C710 [got that number correct this time!] drive reorganized
- >to allow supporting different cards, so the A4091 support should be easy
- >to add once all the required hardware details are known.
-
- Now (being the slave-driver I am (or is that /dev/master? ;-)), can you give us
- an idea of when the next source merge will be? I look forward to a day where:
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- config A2000 MC68040 NCR53c710 A2024
- config A3000
- config A4000 MC68040 FASTLANE
-
-
- will do what we want it to do ;-).
-
-
- and most of all...
-
-
- my_cli> make
- ...
- ...
- ...
- "compile completed: no errors"
-
- But I know, I would be asking too much ;-)))
-
- Bill
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