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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!news.inc.net!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!newsfeed.tip.net!nic.tip.net!icon!daniel From: daniel@icon.pp.se (Daniel Eriksson) Subject: NetBSD on stand alone 040-card? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Me organized, ha! Message-ID: <DJr4G0.B2@icon.pp.se> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 22:14:24 GMT Lines: 21 I've been asked to verify the possibility to "port" NetBSD to a 68040-based data-acquisition card/computer that a friend is planning. The computer-side of the card is to be kept simple and will at first consist of a 040 (or 040EC), a 68360, 2MB PROM, 16MB RAM, a NCR SCSI-chip (5380/5390 or similar) and an Ethernet-chip (don't know brand or model, but certainly something "standard"). This will be linked to the data-acquisition part of the card (a TI C40-family DSP) through a clever and fast mem-mapped cache of some sort. I'm no HW-specialist, but this is what I can remember from the presentation I received. How much work would it involve to "port" NetBSD to run diskless on a card like this (forget SCSI and 68360)? Could the kernel easily be loaded from PROM and then continue booting from a network (a FreeBSD- or Linux-machine)? Could this be done by someone that knows next to nothing about MMU- programming? Is the source-code easy to grasp and self explanatory? Thanks in advance! -- Daniel Eriksson, daniel@icon.pp.se