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drochner 7a829b7e85 -Subtract vm_map_min(kernel_map) from kernel virtual addresses to get offsets into kernel_object where this was missing. (important here because VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS != 0) -add some diagnostics -eliminate some differences to other Utah derived pmaps		2002-05-22 14:34:26 +00:00
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cesfic	-Subtract vm_map_min(kernel_map) from kernel virtual addresses to get offsets	2002-05-22 14:34:26 +00:00
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conf	Add the INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE option to all config files. In config	2002-04-25 15:06:20 +00:00
dev
include	Sort.	2002-02-27 02:21:22 +00:00
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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).