Re: Aranym

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> as I've read somewhere (this list or m68k) you've got a little trouble
> to test m68k/atari ports due to failing hardware, did you try Aranym?
> It's full-featured 68040 Atari-based virtual machine, with MMU and
> everything (boots Linux/m68k with no problem), it even offers direct
> bootstrapping without TOS image present! I tried it yesterday, but
> kernel hangs on keyboard handler or so (I can take a picture if you
> want).

Oh, NetBSD/atari kernel starts on Aranym? Great to hear.
It would be better to post an instruction how to boot NetBSD/atari
kernel on Aranym so that I can debug it myself :-)

BTW, which NetBSD version did you try?
4.0 might have a problem around delay() function and will hang
after keyboard attach.

> In your opinion, it's much work to do? I also want to try Falcon +
> CT60 with NetBSD, I'm really curious if it really works ;)

Yes, 5.0 and later (including 5.1_RC1) should just work on Falcon
even with CT60/63. It was fixed and confirmed by Tuomo Makinen.

> I remember
> some years ago I tried NetBSD kernel on plain Falcon but with no
> success (IDE issues). Julian promised to make some fixes but probably
> never got to it.

We've had significant progress in last two years. See
http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/atari/
fo details.

Note wdc problem fixed:
http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=37464

delay problem fixed:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-atari/2008/12/31/msg000184.html

other ones:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-atari/2009/01/01/msg000187.html
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-atari/2009/01/02/msg000193.html

etc. etc.
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Izumi Tsutsui