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From: mellon@fugue.com (Ted Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on my R4000?
Date: 08 Aug 1995 18:52:21 GMT
Organization: Chukkung Ri Avalanche Works
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In-reply-to: sawyerk@apci.net's message of 8 Aug 1995 04:24:50 GMT


In article <406oui$5ku@hilly.apci.net> sawyerk@apci.net (Kevin Sawyer) writes:
> Greetings.  I happen to have a bunch of brand-new 100Mhz R4000PC-based 
> workstations, [...]

> I've spent a little time browsing the NetBSD WWW sites, but I have yet to 
> find any evidence of NetBSD being compilable for these systems other than 
> a mention of support for DECstations which may or may not be compatible.

Per Fogelstrom <pefo@enea.se> has NetBSD running on an R4000-based
machine, although he hasn't donated the sources back to us yet.   So
far that's the only port I know of.

If you can provide me with a machine, hardware documentation, and
funding, I'll be happy to do the port for you (I'm the portmaster for
the DECstation port).  Per might also be interested in such an
arrangement.  Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu> has been
doing more work than I on the DECstation port recently.  I don't know
if he'd be willing to help you, but you could certainly ask.

Unfortunately, even Free Software isn't cheap.   You'll find this to
be the case whether you hire somebody to do the port, do it yourself,
or just try to adapt what somebody else has done to your needs.   The
rewards are great, IMHO, which is a good thing, because otherwise it
wouldn't be worth it.

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