NAS support ready for upcoming releases

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Hi!

Support for 824x based consumer NAS systems is now ready for the 6.0
release!


Besides MD kernel sources and drivers the following areas have been
updated now:

- New bootloader altboot (installed as /usr/mdec/altboot.bin).
  Can load a kernel from local disk, TFTP or NFS.

- Install script uses appropriate settings and devices for all supported
  NAS systems.

- New installation notes for NAS. Evaluation board notes were removed.

- The Sandpoint port home page was updated to reflect our new focus on
  NAS: http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/sandpoint/

- There are already detailed preparation instructions for Synology boxes,
  and how to build a TTL-RS232 level shifter to access the serial console:
  http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sandpoint/instSynology.html
  More models will hopefully follow soon.


Tested by the developers themselves and guaranteed to work are:
- KuroBox classic
- Synology DS-101g+

Many others will most likely work too. So please tell us about your
experience with NetBSD/sandpoint on other NAS boxes. Either here on this
mailing list, or mail me (phx@) or Toru Nishimura (nisimura@) directly.

I'm having a lot of fun with my small 16W NetBSD PPC server! :)

-- 
Frank Wille