Hi ! I can sponsor VAX remote access if you dont have machine and you want to hack the code on them. I got microvax 3100 and vaxstation 3100 and 4000/90. Its hard to say when I can find the time to install something to them, because I am busy with work lately, it surely wont happen before new year. Keep up with the good work I am looking forward to that. Kind regards, Jan Prunk On Dec 3, 2012 4:07 PM, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote: Toby,
I too have a working mopd based netboot for a MicroVAX II. I did however have ... I've had a look and it seems to me that your tree has none of the changes I made over 10 years ago (I can see my last build, rev. 15, is dated 17th Nov 2002). Chances are you've been working on issues that have been long fixed. :(
If you have a record of changes readily available (I can't see offhand how to extract any diffs out of github.com), then I can see how I can integrate them into my sources. It may be easier than the other way round as I have collected 16 patches so far, on top of the genuine 2.5.3 tarball (dated 21st Aug 1996) that has since gone from its original distribution site at ftp.stacken.kth.se. If there are any conflicts, it may take less effort to resolve them in your change rather than in the other 16. I've got copies of mopd-2.5.3.tar.gz mentioned above at: ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/mopd/ and in the source RPM packages elsewhere at my site.
Since I have three MicroVAX IIs here, maybe I could find time next year to play with Linux/VAX.... No idea, perhaps someone else could comment. I can see there is an arch/vax/kernel/cpu_ka630.c module in the tree, but I have no such hardware, so I can't say how functional or complete it is. The devil might lie in the peripherals, at the very least the serial console and the network interface need to work for the kernel to be of any use.
Your best bet might be to try out and report your findings here. ;)
Thanks for your hard work, Maciej. My pleasure! :)
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