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Re: PPC 860 port?



>> Do we have any ports using the PowerPC 860? =20
> I started one a long time ago (paying customers intervened).  Look at
> http://www.realtime.bc.ca/realsys/netbsd-mpc8xx.html.

Thank you.  I'll save that against future use (see below).

> The biggest issue was the pmap.  It's possible, though, that one of
> the smaller IBM PowerPC's (403? 405?) may be similar.  The rest of
> the work was the usual boot loader, interrupt handling, console
> drivers, and so forth.

Well, I've got a lot of digging, testing, etc to do before I'm ready to
even *try* to actually run NetBSD, and this is strictly a spare-time
project.  I may well never get anywhere to speak of....

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