Subject: Re: orphaned NT4 machines
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-prep
Date: 05/08/2001 23:12:56
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:41:11PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> The included is the complete excerpt from NT4 Hardware Compatibility
> List (it's a version out of a retale box). I think they are subject
> of NetBSD/prep category and only a few are listed there. There were
> fewer hardware variations than the following excerpt. Note that these
> machines were on market at the age when Pentium 133 was ranked in the
> top notch.
>
> Did anyone have any luck?
> FirePower Powerized ES3100
> FirePower Powerized ES380
> FirePower Powerized ES4100
...
> FirePower Powerized LX 4150/2
> FirePower Powerized MX 4100/2
> FirePower Powerized MX 4120/2
> FirePower Powerized MX 4133/2
> FirePower Powerized MX 4150/2
...
The FirePower machines are all OpenFirmware -- the orignal NetBSD/powerpc
work was done on a FirePower machine. (It's now NetBSD/ofppc, of course.)
The FirePower systems had a "veneer.exe" that OFW loaded, which in turn
loaded NT. "veneer.exe" was just that -- a shim that emulated ARC firmware
for NT.
(I have a FirePower LX -- dual 200MHz 604e -- running NT 4. I want
to do NetBSD/ofppc hacking on it, but the port has suffered from some
serious bitrot, and I need to find the time to make even the bootloader
work properly again.)
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>