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      1  1.3  christos $NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2005/12/11 12:17:04 christos Exp $
      2  1.1  drochner 
      3  1.1  drochner This is a port of NetBSD to the FIC8234 VME processor board, made by the
      4  1.1  drochner swiss company CES (Geneve). These boards are (or have been) popular in
      5  1.1  drochner high energy physics data acquisition (think of CERN!). See
      6  1.1  drochner http://www.ces.ch/Products/CPUs/FIC8234/FIC8234.html
      7  1.1  drochner for some technical data.
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      9  1.1  drochner The highlights:
     10  1.1  drochner - MC68040 processor at 25 MHz (optional dual-processor)
     11  1.1  drochner - 8 or 32 MByte RAM
     12  1.1  drochner - 2 serial ports on Z85c30
     13  1.1  drochner - 79c900 (ILACC) ethernet
     14  1.1  drochner - 53c710 SCSI
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     16  1.1  drochner The port is quite rudimentary at the moment. The kernel is started out of
     17  1.1  drochner a running OS-9 system. SCSI support is not present yet, so it only works
     18  1.1  drochner diskless with NFS (or ramdisk - not tested) root.
     19  1.1  drochner It is good enough for multiuser, self-hosting etc. however.
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     21  1.1  drochner To start it:
     22  1.1  drochner - make OS image by "objcopy --output-target=binary netbsd <imagename>"
     23  1.1  drochner - load image to physical address 0x20100000 (RAM start + 1M)
     24  1.1  drochner - jump to 0x20100400
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     26  1.1  drochner For questions and contributions, contact Matthias Drochner
     27  1.2    keihan (drochner (a] NetBSD.org).
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