On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > >patches have been up (and used) from my website. just trying to get the time > >to finish of 2.2.19, and sort problems with 7500 mouse support. > > I think the 2.4 kernels already have support for the mouse on the 7500. You > can probably copy the code verbatim.
tried that, maybe with older code, and it didn't work very well. It seems some mice simply decided to reset improperly. > >no, for a start there is no pc-style hard-disc, so I disable that from > >working on the riscstation, the rtc is different, there is an ISA slot[1] > >and other miscellaneous bits. It is registered as an arch in it's own > >right > > By "an arch in its own right", do you just mean it has its own MACH_TYPE > number, or that it's a completely separate configuration? In other words, > can > you compile a single kernel with support for both RiscPC and riscstation and > select between them at run time (as you can for EBSA-285/CATS/NetWinder) or > do > you have to have separate binaries? erm, ok, it has a machine type... wether or not it can work with RiscPC is something i've not really tried. > >I'll be working for Simtec as of november, so will have some real time to > >dedicate to kernel work, like sorting a 2.4 release, etc. > > Excellent. yeah, probably pickup CATS support at somepoint to. -- Ben Those who ignore their browser history are condemed to repeat it.
