NetBSD/arc 9.2 on Acer PICA

[sadness <vampire%ipv7.net@localhost>]

Dig out my old Acer PICA-61 and tried NetBSD 9.2 on it. Surprise
surprise, it works !
Thanks to Izumi Tsutsui for some of the work done last year to restore
NetBSD/arc.
Haven't done any extensive testing but the installer boots from cd, the
installation works without any problem and the installed system seems
fine, with the only issue I have is the Arc bios doesn't seems to
recognize the FAT partition setup by NetBSD with the loader in it, can
be a problem with my setup, I can boot fine loading the bootloader from
cd and kernel from disk.
Anyway, here is the dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 9.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 12 13:15:55 UTC 2021
	mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/arc/compile/GENERIC
Acer PICA-61
total memory = 65536 KB
avail memory = 57528 KB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R4400 CPU (0x450) Rev. 5.0 with MIPS R4010 FPC
Rev. 0.0
cpu0: 48 TLB entries, 16MB max page size
cpu0: 16KB/16B direct-mapped L1 instruction cache
cpu0: 16KB/16B direct-mapped write-back L1 data cache
jazzio0 at mainbus0
timer0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0000228
mcclock0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0004000: mc146818 compatible time-of-day clock
lpt0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0008000 intr 0
fdc0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0003000 intr 1
MAGNUM at jazzio0 addr 0xe000c000 intr 2 not configured
vga0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0800000 intr 3
wsdisplay0 at vga0 (kbdmux ignored): console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
sn0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0001000 intr 4: SONIC Ethernet
sn0: Ethernet address 00:20:02:00:08:01
asc0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0002000 intr 5: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
pckbc0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0005000 intr 6
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux ignored): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms at jazzio0 addr 0xe0005000 intr 7 not configured
com0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0006000 intr 8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
com0: txfifo disabled
com1 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0007000 intr 9: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
com1: txfifo disabled
jazzisabr0 at mainbus0
isa0 at jazzisabr0 isa_io_base 0xe2000000 isa_mem_base 0xe3000000
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "mips3_cp0_counter" frequency 75000000 Hz
quality 100
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST34573N, 6244> disk fixed
sd0: 4340 MB, 7501 cyl, 5 head, 237 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8888924 sectors
sd0: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
cd0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <PLEXTOR, CD-ROM PX-12TS, 1.01> cdrom
removable
cd0: sync (200.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers
boot device: sd0
root device (default sd0a):
dump device (default sd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs
kern.module.path=/stand/arc/9.2/modules
init path (default /sbin/init):
init: trying /sbin/init

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