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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!chpc.utexas.edu!news.utdallas.edu!corpgate!bnrgate!bmerha64.bnr.ca!news@bmerha64 From: Hamish.Macdonald@bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD Date: 1 Sep 1994 23:38:30 GMT Organization: I speak for nobody but myself Lines: 24 Message-ID: <345olm$mo6@bmerha64.bnr.ca> References: <33cnij$8nd@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <33dm1g$b62@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> <34428n$53v@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerhbc3.bnr.ca In-reply-to: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de's message of 01 Sep 1994 03:09:59 EST >>>>> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) wrote: Volker> While you are at it: I am still looking for someone who will Volker> port NetBSD to my Atari TT. All German Atari developers were Volker> sucked in by the Linux hype and are now beating their brains Volker> out working on a from-scratch Linux port to the TT :-( Eh? There's nothing "from-scratch" about it. They have the advantage of being able to build upon the existing Amiga port of Linux/68k. Not only that, but it *works*. There are currently people running Linux/68k on their Atari TT and Falcon machines with (AFAIK) great success. This is the same advantage that anyone who ports NetBSD to the Atari will have; NetBSD already has all the m68k stuff done. As usual, the larger job in these situations is writing device drivers. This is most likely the same amount of work for both NetBSD and Linux/68k (except the work is largely complete for Linux/68k). As usual, the biggest problem with getting a port to a particular machine done is that 90% of the people are saying "someone please port XXX to YYY" instead of *doing* it.