I've seen AGS+s for a few hundred dollars on ebay - 68040, 16MB
	ram plus flash, I _think_ multibus internally, and a whole bunch
	of network interfaces...

	Maybe we should put up a page listing suggested platforms
	people might want to look at porting NetBSD onto, and contact
	people @netbsd.org who would be willing to provide (some)
	assistance...?


		David/absolute

On 15 Nov 1999, Christian E. Hopps wrote:

> So while I was talking with a person from Cisco at IETF I got this crazy
> idea.  Lots of older cisco hardware (and perhaps even some newer) uses
> 68030s. The 2500 comes to mind.  I discovered that the ethernet cards
> for the 2500 use the amd lance chip.  Presumably the serial HW is
> standard too. The person from cisco suggested that the bus architecure
> was probably based on something standard (why develop one in-house).  I
> believe the cisco boot loader expects a gzip'd ELF binary image.  So in
> other words it might be a fairly simple port :)
> 
> So how about NetBSD on Cisco?  I think this would be really humorous if
> nothing else. :)
> 
> I don't have time to hack on it myself but I thought I would throw the
> idea out in case someone else did.
> 
> Chris.
> 
> BTW some newer HW, the 7200 I think, uses a mips processor and a PCI
> bus, but that box might be too expensive for the random hacker :)
>