[Coco] NitrOS9 question

Thu Oct 5 22:35:12 EDT 2017

Dave,

That is odd.

>From what I can see in the repo the same SHELL is used for even the
headless builds.

If I can find a working Deluxe RS232 Pak.  I will see if I can get it
working on my real CoCo 3.

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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> Look in nitros9-v3.3.0/level2/defs/Defsfile
>
> See if it's listed there.  It may be of no consequence though. Interesting
> thing is that I can tell sysgo to run another program on startup instead of
> shell and it will run.  The only way I can get shell to run is if I include
> VTIO in the bootfile.
>
> Dave
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> On 10/5/2017 9:00 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>
>> Dave, where did you get your sources? I have searched the entire
>> repository for "systype" and found nothing. I remember systype from vanilla
>> OS9, but I don't think it's used anymore.
>> The current VTIO source does reference "cocovtio.d" though.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
>> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Oct 5, 2017 6:00 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 question
>>
>> 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.DaveOn 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?>>>>>>
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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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