Subject: Re: IBM NetStation 1000 Port
To: John Gordon <john_94501@yahoo.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 04/11/2003 15:05:10
At 02:51 PM 4/11/2003, John Gordon wrote:
>Hello folks,
>
>Been perusing the archives for information on the status of a port of 
>NetBSD to
>the IBM NetStation 1000 box (little thin client things that are based on a 
>603e
>CPU and can be had for almost nothing on ebay - picked mine up for $20
>including shipping).
>
>I see that there was a flurry of emails a year or so back, but nothing more.
>Did anybody ever finish this port? If not, is there any information out there
>that might be useful for starting one. I already have it running its original
>OS, and a linux kernel, but would like to explore porting NetBSD to it (that
>was why I bought it in the first place).
>
>If there is nothing already out there that's in a suitable state to share, 
>then
>I'll just start from the beginning, but I thought I'd ask first - hate to
>reinvent the wheel ;-)

I've done some work but I've never figured how to get the NS1K to try
to load my images.  My guess is they need a signature of some sort and
I don't the magic incantations to bless my kernels.


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