[Coco] NitrOS9 question

[Dave Philipsen]

I am now starting to think there is something in the shell that requires 
some sort of support from the VTIO module.  Maybe some mouse support is 
written into it or something?  Does anyone have an old, basic version of 
Shell I could play around with?  I have experimented with starting up 
NitrOS9 on T2 (headless) and I can actually modify the sysgo program to 
run other programs on startup and they seem to be ok.  It's just 
something about Shell...


Dave


On 10/5/2017 4:59 PM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
> Ok, so now I am delving in to vtio.asm and I've hit another brick 
> wall. I thought I had all of the files required to build NitrOS9 but I 
> see a reference to a file called "systype" in the defsfile. My 
> defsfile only references os9defs, rbfdefs, scfdefs, and cocodefs. 
> Where do I find the systype file?  Perhaps it contains the refrerence 
> for SHFTCLR and ohers.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 10/5/2017 4:12 PM, David Ladd wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> I have not tried NitrOS-9 L2 as a headless configuration yet. Looking at
>> the headless section in the build process for the NitrOS-9 Project.  I
>> don't see the keyboard, joy, or snd driver in the headless area so 
>> that is
>> a good sign.  I do see a scdwv.dr and term_scdwv.dt which tells me 
>> that you
>> probably can use the term_sc6551.dt and sc6551.dr.
>>
>> I myself can not verify this as my CoCo3FPGA is not in working condition
>> right now.  As soon as I get my Analog board back I will certainly 
>> try some
>> of this out.
>>
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>>
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ummm....I shouldn't need to.  I've defined T2 as the default console in
>>> Init.
>>>
>>> In fact, as I'm writing this I just tried adding Term back into the
>>> bootfile and I still have the same problem.  I get the Init and sysgo
>>> sign-on banners but the shell is not chained.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/5/2017 2:04 PM, David Ladd wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dave,
>>>>
>>>> I think you still need a TERM descriptor?  Though in this case you
>>>> probably
>>>> need a TERM descriptor based on T2?
>>>>
>>>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
>>>>
>>>> | David Ladd a.k.a. PacoOtaktay a.k.a. 
>>>> Drencor                          |
>>>> | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/PacoOtaktay |
>>>> | YouTube Gaming Live: 
>>>> https://gaming.youtube.com/user/PacoOtaktay/live |
>>>> | Websites: http://dwladd.com     & http://www.theterrorzone.com    |
>>>> | G+: https://plus.google.com/113262444659438038657 |
>>>> | G+: https://plus.google.com/+DavidLaddPacoOtaktay |
>>>> | |
>>>> | Do you have your CoCo 3 
>>>> yet?                                          |
>>>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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