1The ipEngine-1 is a Motorola MPC8xx-based small computer 2made by Bright Star Engineering (www.brightstareng.com) 3which also provides Linux and their own operating system for it. 4It is an interesting hardware platform to do network-oriented Inferno 5applications. 6 7The ipEngine is unusual in including an FPGA (Altera Flex 6016). 8See fpga(3) and fpgaload(8). 9We are also working on software to help program the thing. 10 11 12Booting the ipEngine 13 140. serial cable (port 1, 9600 baud), ether, power etc. 15 161. make appropriate entries for your site in flash 17 using the BSE monitor: 18 19 set netmask 255.255.255.0 20 set nameserver 200.1.1.11 21 set server 200.1.1.11 22 set serverip 200.1.1.11 23 set gateway 200.1.1.50 24 set hostname stella 25 set domain vitanuova.com 26 set myip 200.1.1.96 27 282. add an entry to do the boot by tftp: 29 30 set bootcmd "load /usr/inferno/os/ipengine/iipe 3000; go 3020" 31 32 contrary to the BSE documentation this loads any 33 binary file at the given address. the -b option 34 doesn't seem to be needed. 35 363. reset 37 it should load and start the kernel 38 39Vita Nuova 4016 July 2003 41