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joerg 48717cfc00 Refactor ps_strings access. Based on PK_32, write either the normal version or the 32bit compat layout in execve1. Introduce a new function copyin_psstrings for reading it back from userland and converting it to the native layout. Refactor procfs to share most of the code with the kern.proc_args sysctl handler. This material is based upon work partially supported by The NetBSD Foundation under a contract with Joerg Sonnenberger.		2011-03-04 22:25:24 +00:00
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cesfic	Refactor ps_strings access. Based on PK_32, write either the normal	2011-03-04 22:25:24 +00:00
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README

$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2005/12/11 12:17:04 christos Exp $

This is a port of NetBSD to the FIC8234 VME processor board, made by the
swiss company CES (Geneve). These boards are (or have been) popular in
high energy physics data acquisition (think of CERN!). See
http://www.ces.ch/Products/CPUs/FIC8234/FIC8234.html
for some technical data.

The highlights:
- MC68040 processor at 25 MHz (optional dual-processor)
- 8 or 32 MByte RAM
- 2 serial ports on Z85c30
- 79c900 (ILACC) ethernet
- 53c710 SCSI

The port is quite rudimentary at the moment. The kernel is started out of
a running OS-9 system. SCSI support is not present yet, so it only works
diskless with NFS (or ramdisk - not tested) root.
It is good enough for multiuser, self-hosting etc. however.

To start it:
- make OS image by "objcopy --output-target=binary netbsd <imagename>"
- load image to physical address 0x20100000 (RAM start + 1M)
- jump to 0x20100400

For questions and contributions, contact Matthias Drochner
(drochner@NetBSD.org).