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lukem 4bb41ae2f2 Rework how KERNOBJDIR functions; now it's always determined with cd ${KERNSRCDIR}/${KERNARCHDIR}/compile && ${PRINTOBJDIR} This is far simpler than the previous system, and more robust with objdirs built via BSDOBJDIR. The previous method of finding KERNOBJDIR when using BSDOBJDIR by referencing _SRC_TOP_OBJ_ from another directory was extremely fragile due to the depth first tree walk by <bsd.subdir.mk>, and the caching of _SRC_TOP_OBJ_ (with MAKEOVERRIDES) which would be empty on the first pass to create fresh objdirs. This change requires adding sys/arch//compile/Makefile to create the objdir in that directory, and descending into arch//compile from arch/*/Makefile. Remove the now-unnecessary .keep_me files whilst here. Per lengthy discussion with Andrew Brown.		2003-01-06 17:40:18 +00:00
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cesfic	do a TBIAS after modifying cache enable bits	2002-12-13 18:52:56 +00:00
compile	Rework how KERNOBJDIR functions; now it's always determined with	2003-01-06 17:40:18 +00:00
conf	Fix typo (responsiness -> responsiveness).	2002-11-22 12:20:58 +00:00
dev	Use aprint_normal() for cfprint routines.	2003-01-01 01:24:19 +00:00
include	Use __LDPGSZ (which must be == USRTEXT) as the text address for a.out	2002-12-10 05:14:24 +00:00
Makefile	Rework how KERNOBJDIR functions; now it's always determined with	2003-01-06 17:40:18 +00:00
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).