[Coco] Dragon64 / NitrOS9 Question

[jon bird]

The D64s serial port is based on a 6551 device and hence would need a separate driver. There was one in the original os9 flavour.. 

On 4 January 2017 11:08:11 GMT+00:00, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>I'm reposting this as many may have missed it over the holidays and I
>reall need this info.
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>Dragon guys... I have been working on my "BootMajik" automated NitrOS9
>boot making utility and I want to include the Dragon64 as well as the
>Tano Dragon64.
>I know the Dragon has a paralell port and that port is supported in the
>NitrOS9 repository in the builds for the Dragons. My question is on the
>serial interface. Is the Dragon serial port the same as a Coco or does
>it require a different driver?
>The disks built for the Dragon and available in the repo have
>descriptors for the serial port (t2 & t3, Serial Pak?), but no driver
>(??). The "bootlist" supplied on the disk for making new os9boot files
>is absolutely useless as it seems to be the Coco2 bootlist and not the
>Dragon. In fact, the bootlists on all the NitrOS9 disks need a major
>makeover as all are incorrect in that they reference files that don't
>exist or files that have been renamed. These really need reworking and
>I hope to get to that soon.
>Which reminds me, does anyone know if the RBSuper drivers (lltc3,
>llide, & llsdc) and the drivewire drivers work on the Dragon?
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