On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Peter Bentley wrote:

> Erik E. Fair wrote:
> > We should do a web page with the names, part numbers, and characteristics
> > of the various Sbus & VME cards that NetBSD/sparc (and maybe NetBSD/sun3?)
> > supports. 
> 
> Not wanting to go off at a tangent too much, but what's the status of
> sun4u support?  Is anyone actively working on that?  With the advent of
> cheap-ish PCI machines like the Ultra-5, sun4u starts looking more
> attractive as a NetBSD platform...
> 
> I'm mostly curious as to what the issues involved are...presumably new
> bus support (FPA and PCI), new MMUs with new undocumented bugs, new
> instructions?

>From listerning to Jason Thope's talk at usenix the ultra port should be
appearing in the tree (or for public testing) real soon now.

apologies in advance if this pre-empts an official announcement...


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