[Coco] NitrOS9 question

David Ladd davidwladd at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 15:04:08 EDT 2017


Dave,

I think you still need a TERM descriptor?  Though in this case you probably
need a TERM descriptor based on T2?

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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> Ok, so I've successfully eliminated CoWin, KeyDrv, SndDrv, JoyDrv, RBDW,
> DWIO, RAMD, R0, and Term from my bootfile and the CoCo3FPGA boots up with a
> shell on T2.  But, when I try to remove VTIO I get the signon message from
> Init on T2 but I don't get a shell.  To my knowledge VTIO is simply a
> device driver module for the SCF window devices.  If I have no window
> device descriptors in the bootfile, then, why is VTIO needed?  See output
> from 'mdir' below:
>
>
> KrnP2       Init        Clock       Clock2      IOMan       RBF
> SCF         PipeMan     RBSuper     LLCoCo3FPGA Piper SD1
> DD          SC6551      VTIO        T2          Pipe CCBKrn
> MDir        Shell       Date        DeIniz      Echo Iniz
> Link        Load        Save        Unlink
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On 10/3/2017 11:12 PM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>
>> Yep, it's an FPGA board so it's a synthesized 6809 running at 25 MHz.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On 10/3/2017 9:23 PM, Brett Gordon wrote:
>>
>>> I take it your platform is also 6809 based? Cool.. Sounds like a neat
>>> idea.  Loads of fun.  kudos on the bootloader mod - submit patch!
>>>
>>> brett
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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