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      1 $NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2005/12/11 12:17:04 christos Exp $
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      3 This is a port of NetBSD to the FIC8234 VME processor board, made by the
      4 swiss company CES (Geneve). These boards are (or have been) popular in
      5 high energy physics data acquisition (think of CERN!). See
      6 http://www.ces.ch/Products/CPUs/FIC8234/FIC8234.html
      7 for some technical data.
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      9 The highlights:
     10 - MC68040 processor at 25 MHz (optional dual-processor)
     11 - 8 or 32 MByte RAM
     12 - 2 serial ports on Z85c30
     13 - 79c900 (ILACC) ethernet
     14 - 53c710 SCSI
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     16 The port is quite rudimentary at the moment. The kernel is started out of
     17 a running OS-9 system. SCSI support is not present yet, so it only works
     18 diskless with NFS (or ramdisk - not tested) root.
     19 It is good enough for multiuser, self-hosting etc. however.
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     21 To start it:
     22 - make OS image by "objcopy --output-target=binary netbsd <imagename>"
     23 - load image to physical address 0x20100000 (RAM start + 1M)
     24 - jump to 0x20100400
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     26 For questions and contributions, contact Matthias Drochner
     27 (drochner (a] NetBSD.org).
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