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31.1SdrochnerThis is a port of NetBSD to the FIC8234 VME processor board, made by the
41.1Sdrochnerswiss company CES (Geneve). These boards are (or have been) popular in
51.1Sdrochnerhigh energy physics data acquisition (think of CERN!). See
61.1Sdrochnerhttp://www.ces.ch/Products/CPUs/FIC8234/FIC8234.html
71.1Sdrochnerfor some technical data.
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91.1SdrochnerThe highlights:
101.1Sdrochner- MC68040 processor at 25 MHz (optional dual-processor)
111.1Sdrochner- 8 or 32 MByte RAM
121.1Sdrochner- 2 serial ports on Z85c30
131.1Sdrochner- 79c900 (ILACC) ethernet
141.1Sdrochner- 53c710 SCSI
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161.1SdrochnerThe port is quite rudimentary at the moment. The kernel is started out of
171.1Sdrochnera running OS-9 system. SCSI support is not present yet, so it only works
181.1Sdrochnerdiskless with NFS (or ramdisk - not tested) root.
191.1SdrochnerIt is good enough for multiuser, self-hosting etc. however.
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211.1SdrochnerTo start it:
221.1Sdrochner- make OS image by "objcopy --output-target=binary netbsd <imagename>"
231.1Sdrochner- load image to physical address 0x20100000 (RAM start + 1M)
241.1Sdrochner- jump to 0x20100400
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261.1SdrochnerFor questions and contributions, contact Matthias Drochner
271.2Skeihan(drochner@NetBSD.org).
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