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From: tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: 68020, cross and native
Message-ID: <1993Jun1.203150.14668@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 93 20:31:50 GMT
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In article <C7x701.IF3@world.std.com> hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) writes:
>Individuals interested in either cross development (our own interest)
>or anyone who working on {net,386}bsd work native for the Motorola
>family are invited to tell us what they are up to (or to send us their
>wish list).
OK, I'll bite. I am at work with interest in getting BSD to run on
68010 and 68030 machines that I have within my grasp. I have gotten as
far as writing stand-alone drivers, building a cross-development set of
tools, putting a BSD filesystem on a floppy and running standalone boot
and getting it to boot up a test "pseudo-kernel" executable from the
filesystem on floppy. Also have written a hard-drive formatter using
the WD1010 chipset, and managed to format a hard-drive and put a filesystem
onto it, and get to where I can boot from the hard drive. Right now I
am working hard to get to where I really understand the Mach VM system
that is used in Net-2 ... oh, and I have scratched the surface with
getting a "config" set up to handle my target.
I also would be curious to be in touch with others working on BSD in
the 680x0 arena. One of the stated goals of NetBSD is to bring in support
for other architectures, so this post isn't too out of line.
--
Tom Trebisky ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu