Subject: Re: Hello
To: None <port-sandpoint@netbsd.org>
From: Jim Thompson <jim@smallworks.com>
List: port-sandpoint
Date: 07/04/2001 18:05:06
Allen Briggs writes:
> [ There is a port-sandpoint@netbsd.org mailing list--there is not any
> need to include the macppc folks in the discussion. Replies are
> redirected to port-sandpoint. ]
>
> > Hello I would like to port NetBSD to my sandpoint evaluation board
> > for studying purpose...
>
> It's already been ported. If you pick up NetBSD-current (there are
> instructions for this on the www.netbsd.org web site), you will find
> a src/sys/arch/sandpoint directory. There are several things missing
> from the port (IDE support, for example), but it seems to work fine
> with both the Unity and the Altimus processor modules, and all of the
> sources are in the main tree right now. You just need to download and
> build.
Oh, I wish it were that EZ. (I've been trying for a week to get the
entire tree to build using a cross-compiler.) The kernel builds fine,
its all of user-land that creates a problem.
> If you need other information, please let me know where you need to
> start.
>
> > PS : I already ported linux with sandpoint....
>
> Did you work on the port for Monte Vista (?), or was this an independent
> effort?
And if not Monte Vista, where is the source?
Jim