From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 5 5:48:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C85837B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 05:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA18712; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:48:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f15DloD06870; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:47:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14974.44806.104312.206352@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:47:50 -0500 (EST) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TGA Console and Alpha perfmon In-Reply-To: <20010205095858.F90937@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20010205095858.F90937@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Jeremy writes: > In one of the regular "why can't I use a TGA as a console" threads, > mention was made that the necessary information to actually write > a driver is now available. Does anyone have a URL? I beleive it has been available for quite some time: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/index.html#dsc-chip-21030 However, there is already a volunteer working on a TGA driver as we speak. He has made substantial progress, however there are a few remaining issues to tackle (primarily the finer points of syscons integration & X server interaction). > On a totally separate issue, has anyone looked at implementing hooks > to use the performance monitoring facilities in the CPUs? I realise > that one problem is the totally different information provided by > different chips, but I don't see any problem (in principal) with > providing CPU-dependent interface code. There's currently a device > node for the i386, which could be re-used (though sysctl may be a > cleaner interface for reading performance counters). http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/iprobe.html Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message