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From: glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: 68020, cross and native
Date: 1 Jun 93 17:32:58
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In-reply-to: tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu's message of 1 Jun 93 20:31:50 GMT
tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
;
; 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
;
Yes. The NetBSD group is committed to supporting other architectures
in addition to the i386.
A couple of us are trying to integrate in the hp300 (68k-based)
support from NET2 into NetBSD. This will appear in a future release.
Other ongoing porting efforts of which we are aware target the
macintosh, amiga, sun3 (me), mips, and ns32k "architectures". Some of
these efforts are farther along than others. Some were based on NET2
directly, others on 386BSD, and the rest on NetBSD 0.8. We are trying
to get everybody to integrate their stuff into our tree rather than
creating n-`uname -m`BSD distributions of various vintages.
If you would like more information/want to help with these efforts, we
can direct you to the particular people involved if you mail
'netbsd-help@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu'.
later,
Adam Glass
PS. Please contact us if you are doing a NetBSD port as the current
source tree handles non-i386 architectures better than did 0.8. In
addition close cooperation with the other porting groups will likely
lead to cleaner ports that take advantage of the experience being amassed.
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