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yamt 6b2d8b66a4 merge yamt-km branch. - don't use managed mappings/backing objects for wired memory allocations. save some resources like pv_entry. also fix (most of) PR/27030. - simplify kernel memory management API. - simplify pmap bootstrap of some ports. - some related cleanups.		2005-04-01 11:59:21 +00:00
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cesfic	merge yamt-km branch.	2005-04-01 11:59:21 +00:00
compile	…
conf	Add COMPAT_20 (and COMPAT_16 in some cases) to kernel config files	2005-02-25 13:46:48 +00:00
dev	Cast to (void *) to appease gcc3.	2003-09-28 22:00:26 +00:00
include	merge yamt-km branch.	2005-04-01 11:59:21 +00:00
Makefile	…
README	netbsd.org -> NetBSD.org	2003-12-04 13:05:15 +00:00

README

$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 2003/12/04 13:05:16 keihan 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).