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thorpej 32a8b62d33 - Shrink ipl_cookie_t from 32-bits to 16-bits (large enough to hold an SR value or an IPL_* constant). - Take advange of the smaller ipl_cookie_t to shrink kmutex_t from 16 bytes to 8 bytes by overlapping storage where possible. - Implement a RAS-based _lock_cas() for mc68010 systems (Sun2). See sun68k/sun68k/isr.c. Tested on various m68k platforms, but NOT Sun2. In any case, at least Sun2 compiles now.		2007-03-11 05:22:24 +00:00
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cesfic	MI softintr(9)'fy. Untested.	2007-03-05 13:06:43 +00:00
compile	…
conf	MI softintr(9)'fy. Untested.	2007-03-05 13:06:43 +00:00
dev	MI softintr(9)'fy. Untested.	2007-03-05 13:06:43 +00:00
include	- Shrink ipl_cookie_t from 32-bits to 16-bits (large enough to hold	2007-03-11 05:22:24 +00:00
Makefile	…
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).