Subject: Re: Digital Network Appliance board vs. NetBSD
To: None <wes@dayna.com, jjk@pa.dec.com>
From: Francis Yeung <fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/11/1997 17:07:37
Greetings,
Any pricing information for the DNA board ?
Francis
> From root@fyeung25.netific.com Tue Jun 10 23:10 PDT 1997
> To: Wes Peters <wes@dayna.com>
> Cc: port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG, cgd@pa.dec.com, redell@pa.dec.com
> Subject: Re: Digital Network Appliance board vs. NetBSD
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 97 22:47:34 -0700
> From: "Jay Kistler" <jjk@pa.dec.com>
> X-Mts: smtp
> Delivered-To: port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG
>
>
> > Can anyone here at "port-arm32" tell me where I can obtain information
> > about the NetBSD release for the DNA board? Can it be built from NetBSD
> > release code, or are there bits and pieces that must be obtained specially
> > for the DNA board?
>
> The DNA-specific bits are not yet integrated into the mainline NetBSD
> source. This is simply a scheduling issue; the people who must do
> the merge have some critical deadlines toward the end of this month.
> I expect that the merge will be completed and made publicly available
> in early July.
>
>
> > Also, can anyone tell me if X11 has been ported to the VGA controller on
> > this board? I supposed this is really more a question for the folks
> > at XFree86, but I'm not sure they would be interested in an SA-110 based
> > system, and feel certain *someone* at NetBSD will know.
>
> Yes, an XFree86-based X Server has been ported to this platform.
> We made an attempt to get our changes merged into the XFree86 tree,
> but things were disrupted by the transition from XFree86 3.2 -->
> 3.3 and by our own continued evolution of the server. I expect that
> we'll post patch kits to both 3.2 and 3.3, again in the July time-frame,
> and we'll also work to get the mods permanently included in the XFree86
> source tree.
>
>
> -Jay
>
>
>