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bouyer a47e2eb758 Add getlabelusesmbr(), as proposed in http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2011/08/25/msg005404.html This is used by disk tools such as disklabel(8) to dynamically decide is the undelyling platform uses a disklabel-in-mbr-partition or not (instead of using a compile-time list of ports). getlabelusesmbr() reads the sysctl kern.labelusesmbr, takes its value from the machdep #define LABELUSESMBR. For evbmips, make LABELUSESMBR 1 if the platform uses pmon as bootloader, and 0 (the previous value) otherwise.		2011-08-30 12:39:49 +00:00
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cesfic	Welcome to 5.99.53! Merge rmind-uvmplock branch:	2011-06-12 03:35:36 +00:00
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conf	dependant -> dependent	2011-06-30 20:09:15 +00:00
dev	kill extra whitespaces	2009-10-26 19:16:54 +00:00
include	Add getlabelusesmbr(), as proposed in	2011-08-30 12:39:49 +00:00
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README

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).