Re: NetBSD for EFIKA?

["Peter H. Fröhlich" <phf%cs.jhu.edu@localhost>]

Hi all, and Hi Frank (cool to see Amiga people here!),

On May 14, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Frank Wille wrote:

> Last time I looked it did no longer crash.

:-)

> But more than the PCI bus
> and your graphics board will not be recognized, because all the
> drivers for the 5200B-internal stuff (USB, network, ATA, interrupts)
> still have to be written.

I read some old threads in the archives about this (after I posted,  
doh!), and it seems (from what I understood) that this is not really  
a technical issue anymore but mostly a resource issue?

That is, most NetBSD ofppc developers have other machine preferences  
and work on those first, correct? Nothing wrong with that, I just  
want to make sure that technical hurdles such as missing  
documentation are not the problem anymore at this point?

Who knows, I might be able to convince some students of mine to work  
on it, but it would be bad if they had to spend weeks hunting for  
documentation first. :-)

> > I saw that Debian seems  to work (might even be supported by the  
> > EFIKA guys themselves I  guess?), but I'd prefer NetBSD for  
> > consistency with my other boxes.
>
> Yes, I feel the same, and I would like to tackle it sooner or later,
> after the Pegasos2 port is working.

Well, since the EFIKA is the only thing I can get my hands on right  
now, I guess I'll have to wait a little longer. No problem, I am also  
looking into a Mac Mini as a possible solution for what I have in  
mind, but they are more expensive and less geeky. (Currently I have a  
spare PowerBook provide PPC hardware for my compilers course, but  
something less bulky would be nicer to have in my bookshelf.)

Cheers,
Peter