What is the location of the current sources for the
arc port ? Does the following build you mentioned has
any enhancements for the NEC IMAGE RISCSation ?

ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/os/NetBSD/misc/arc/netbsd.COMCONS.2000-06-20.ecoff.gz

Greg Oster and me spend about 4 hours last night and
installed NetBSD onto my NEC Image RISC Station. We
are in the process of documenting the process and post
it on the netbsd site. 

Though NetBSD has a very good kernel for the arc due
to the lack of installation program or desc of the
procedure is making extremely painful.

How ever we perfected the procedure for the net
install last night and it works and we will try to
document and post it on the web site soon.

Prasad Nuli


--- Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:
> I'm sorry for late response.
> 
> When Bob tried NetBSD/arc on his NEC RISCserver
> 2200, cerntainly
> the NetBSD kernel didn't work with the RISCserver
> 2200.
> 
> But now, I'm not really certain. It seems I made a
> mistake to support
> RISCserver 2200 at that time. 
> 
> Bob, Ross, Gabriel, Nick, I'm sorry that I have not
> informed you
> about the mistake. But still I'm not sure whether
> newer kernel works
> with RISCserver 2200 or not. And if it still doesn't
> work, I don't
> have enough free time to debug it by myself for now.
> 
> But...
> Kurt, Bob, Ross, Gabriel, Nick, if you have free
> time, please test
> the following kernel with serial console:
>
ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/os/NetBSD/misc/arc/netbsd.COMCONS.2000-06-20.ecoff.gz
> 
> Note that this kernel doesn't support the following
> devices:
> 	- internal video device
> 		this may be supported.
> 	- internal scsi device
> 		this is somewhat hard.
> So, RISCstation 2200 requires diskless booting.
> 
> Please do not use the kernel on ftp.netbsd.org, the
> kernel at March 5
> doesn't include the RISCserver 2200 support,
> although -current kernel
> already includes experimetal support to RISCserver
> 2200.
> --
> soda
> 
> 


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