[SPARCbook] What software improvments?

[John Altstatt]

David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:46:36AM -0400, Thomas Roehr wrote:
> 
> > When you say better console support, do you mean better then the CG3 hack that
> > is currently used, i.e. take advantage of the p9100 acceleration chip?
> 
> I don't know.  What I do know, however, is that Linux on my Sparcbook uses
> the PROM-style console, not the framebuffer console that it does on any
> other Sun-a-like, and that this is unbearably slow.
> 
> Maybe there's a driver in later versions, I'm still using 2.2.18.
> 
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This PROM-based console used to be a problem on other Sun machines. There
is a hack which writes the PROM code to memory and executes that instead
of the PROM located code. I'll try to find it. It may take awhile as I haven't
seen it for several years.

-John Altstatt   jea at DOESNTEXISTaltstatt.com

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