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jmc 6d536163de Change defaults for kernel compiles. Default all to USETOOLS?=no and have the etc Makefile override that by putting USETOOLS into $.MAKEOVERRIDES This way the default for kernel compiles is still to use the installed toolchain instead of depending on $TOOLDIR. $TOOLDIR can be used by simply adding USETOOLS=yes to the command line as usual. Adjust each ports template to set the default no setting and also pull in bsd.own.mk if they weren't already to ensure they'll build correctly with the new toolchain setup.		2001-10-26 06:45:33 +00:00
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cesfic	fix typo in pmap_kremove() which was invalidating the wrong TLB entry.	2001-09-29 22:00:29 +00:00
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conf	Change defaults for kernel compiles. Default all to USETOOLS?=no and have	2001-10-26 06:45:33 +00:00
dev	…
include	Update pmap_update to now take the updated pmap as an argument.	2001-09-10 21:19:08 +00:00
Makefile	…
README	…

README

$NetBSD: README,v 1.1 2001/05/14 18:22:58 drochner 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).