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briggs 0b956d0b8b Implement pmc(9) -- An interface to hardware performance monitoring counters. These counters do not exist on all CPUs, but where they do exist, can be used for counting events such as dcache misses that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to instrument by code inspection or hardware simulation. pmc(9) is meant to be a general interface. Initially, the Intel XScale counters are the only ones supported.		2002-08-07 05:14:47 +00:00
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cesfic	Rename cdev_systrace_init() to cdev_clonemisc_init(), so it can	2002-07-19 16:38:14 +00:00
compile	…
conf	Enable "pseudo-device clockctl" in all kernels, except	2002-06-17 05:14:02 +00:00
dev	…
include	Implement pmc(9) -- An interface to hardware performance monitoring	2002-08-07 05:14:47 +00:00
Makefile	…
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).