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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: {free,net} bsd on a ibm thinkpad 720?
Date: 10 Nov 1993 07:03:11 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <2bn2l2$10sq@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes:
>The [thinkpad] 720 is an MCA machine (I have one too), and none of the
>free BSD's will run on an MCA arch machine. If you like programming you
>could port it...
Get the DOC's for the IBM protected mode BIOS -- this will make it a lot
easier (the drivers can be simple mappings) to get an initial port going.
I have been arguing for some time for a seperation of portable code from
processer specific code from bus specific code in the various projects
(I want to do an EISA port to several different processers). NetBSD
has mostly completed the portable code seperation.
If you were to complete the bus seperation, that would help your project
immensely... unfortunately, I can't commit my code back at this time.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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