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jmmv ec93365612 Initial addition of tmpfs, an efficient memory file-system. This project was developed as part of Google's Summer of Code 2005 program. This change adds the kernel code, the mount_tmpfs utility, a regression test suite and does all other related changes to integrate these. The file-system is still experimental. Therefore, it is disabled by default in all kernels. However, as typically done, a commented-out entry is added in them to ease its setup. Note that I haven't commited the required mountd(8) changes to be able to export tmpfs file-systems because NFS support is still very unstable and because, before enabling it, I'd like to do some other changes. OK'ed by my project mentor, William Studenmund (wrstuden@).		2005-09-10 19:20:48 +00:00
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cesfic	s/locdesc_t/int/g	2005-08-26 13:19:34 +00:00
compile	Rework how KERNOBJDIR functions; now it's always determined with	2003-01-06 17:40:18 +00:00
conf	Initial addition of tmpfs, an efficient memory file-system. This project	2005-09-10 19:20:48 +00:00
dev	Cast to (void *) to appease gcc3.	2003-09-28 22:00:26 +00:00
include	Add m68k sunos_machdep.h	2005-07-11 13:13:56 +00:00
Makefile	Rework how KERNOBJDIR functions; now it's always determined with	2003-01-06 17:40:18 +00:00
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).