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From: roger@rogerf.austin.ibm.com (roger)
Subject: Re: NetBSD on an RT
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 11:28:41 GMT
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In article <205ttl$9gm@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au> andrewm@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Andrew Myles) writes:
>
>Now I know that I can probably get netbsd running on a standard
>PC but what about the possibility of a RT which someone might
>give me lots of. As I recall it is a very different processor so
>has anyone done a port?
>
IF you have access to IBM's AOS (IBM's port of BSD4.3 for the RT),
it might be possible to port NetBSD. The hardest part of doing
the part is dealing with BSD's new VM system vs the RT's hardware.
4.3RENO (released a year before NET-2) does run on an RT, but that
still has the old BSD VM.
Then there is the question of a compiler. IF the port is done
right, hc (comes with AOS) will be binary compatible. Else you'll
have to jump to GCC. But as of GCC-2.1, gcc wasn't capable of
compiling a running kernel on the RT.
--
Roger Florkowski IBM Personal Systems Programming
AIX RISC System/6000 Network Communications Support
11400 Burnet Road Internet Mail: roger@wizards.austin.ibm.com
Austin, TX 78752 email: roger@rogerf.austin.ibm.com