1*95e1ffb1Schristos$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 2005/12/11 12:17:04 christos Exp $ 2e047259aSdrochner 3e047259aSdrochnerThis is a port of NetBSD to the FIC8234 VME processor board, made by the 4e047259aSdrochnerswiss company CES (Geneve). These boards are (or have been) popular in 5e047259aSdrochnerhigh energy physics data acquisition (think of CERN!). See 6e047259aSdrochnerhttp://www.ces.ch/Products/CPUs/FIC8234/FIC8234.html 7e047259aSdrochnerfor some technical data. 8e047259aSdrochner 9e047259aSdrochnerThe highlights: 10e047259aSdrochner- MC68040 processor at 25 MHz (optional dual-processor) 11e047259aSdrochner- 8 or 32 MByte RAM 12e047259aSdrochner- 2 serial ports on Z85c30 13e047259aSdrochner- 79c900 (ILACC) ethernet 14e047259aSdrochner- 53c710 SCSI 15e047259aSdrochner 16e047259aSdrochnerThe port is quite rudimentary at the moment. The kernel is started out of 17e047259aSdrochnera running OS-9 system. SCSI support is not present yet, so it only works 18e047259aSdrochnerdiskless with NFS (or ramdisk - not tested) root. 19e047259aSdrochnerIt is good enough for multiuser, self-hosting etc. however. 20e047259aSdrochner 21e047259aSdrochnerTo start it: 22e047259aSdrochner- make OS image by "objcopy --output-target=binary netbsd <imagename>" 23e047259aSdrochner- load image to physical address 0x20100000 (RAM start + 1M) 24e047259aSdrochner- jump to 0x20100400 25e047259aSdrochner 26e047259aSdrochnerFor questions and contributions, contact Matthias Drochner 2729c72c57Skeihan(drochner@NetBSD.org). 28