From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 5 13:14: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from netau1.alcanet.com.au (ntp.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE58737B4EC for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:13:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au [139.188.23.1]) by netau1.alcanet.com.au (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA04121; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:12:58 +1100 (EDT) Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37640) with ESMTP id <01JZS792IWGW8ZIRFR@cim.alcatel.com.au>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:12:57 +1100 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f15LCuq76889; Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:12:56 +1100 (EST envelope-from jeremyp) Content-return: prohibited Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:12:55 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: TGA Console and Alpha perfmon In-reply-to: <14974.44806.104312.206352@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:47:50AM -0500 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-followup-to: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20010206081255.O90937@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20010205095858.F90937@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <14974.44806.104312.206352@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-Feb-05 08:47:50 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >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 Thanks for that. The various search engines I used couldn't manage to map my query to that URL. >However, there is already a volunteer working on a TGA driver as we >speak. I suspected there might be. I'd be interested in helping/testing if he'd like. [alpha/Perfmon] >http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/iprobe.html Thanks you for that. It looks like it is quite useful. Pity it's GPL'd so it can't go into the main tree (at least the kernel part). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message