Finally, a colour head for my DEC PRO 380

[klapperp]

Here is the missing stuff you need to rebuild the PRO/VENIX 2.0 kernel.

Supposed, you have the reconstructed PRO/VENIX 2.0 installed on your Pro3xx (in my case a Pro380)

1.) Transfer the "tar" archive out of the "zip" file to your Pro. The easiest way to do this is "kermit".

2.) Unpack the tar archive as "root" into the "/" directory.

3.) Build the kernel as follows:

SUPER: PATH=$PATH:.;export PATH
SUPER: echo $PATH
/bin:/etc:/usr/bin:.
SUPER: cd /usr/sys/conf
SUPER: pwd
/usr/sys/conf
SUPER: make install
=== Making venix for PRO 380 ===
        config -m master params.p380
        cc -c -I/usr/include conf.c
        mv conf.o c.p380.o
        cc -c -DMACH='"PRO380\0 "' -DVERS=\"`/usr/bin/date +%y%m%d%H`\" -I/usr/include uts.c
        mv uts.o uts.p380.o
        ld -k -i -X -x -u _sureg -u _mapallo low.pro.o c.p380.o \
                ../MDLIB.11.p380 ../IOLIB.pro ../OSLIB.11 uts.p380.o last.o
        kfix a.out venix.p380
        vstrip11 venix.p380
        rm a.out
        chmod 444 venix.p380
=== venix is now made ===
        mv venix /venix.test
=== Reboot next on "venix.test" and rename it "venix" when verified ===
SUPER:

When you leave everything as it is, you get exactly the same kernel as the original one, just with an other version number.

Good luck with your personal tuning. I already changed the line frequency in my Venix kernel from 60Hz to 50Hz to fit with my environment ;-)

// Peter

 

[czunit]

Nice job, now you need to write a TCP stack and support for the Ethernet card.

On a side note, does anyone have a pic of the AVO board for the Pro? I'm curious to see if it uses the same chipsets as the Reinbow and VT240

 

[klapperp]

Is there anybody who can test this little attached program on his own Pro3xx under VENIX/PRO 2.0?

If it works elsewhere I am going to create a small tool, to modify these parameters:

# cc -DVENIX -O test2.c -o test2
# ./test2
Hostname: pro380pk
SerialNo: DEC00100
MaxUsers: 2

// Peter