Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!eclam From: eclam@maytag.waterloo.edu (Edmund C. Lam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: BSD port for 32k (was: Re: The 'cost' of a '532 system.) Message-ID:Date: 29 Nov 88 06:23:30 GMT References: <433@sdrc.UUCP> <2659@sultra.UUCP> <1041@raspail.UUCP> <256@aber-cs.UUCP> <2667@sultra.UUCP> <8084@daver.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watmath.waterloo.edu Distribution: eunet,world Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo Lines: 22 In-reply-to: dlr@daver.UUCP's message of 22 Nov 88 04:26:15 GMT UCB is in the process of "giving" away all its non AT&T code. For example, 4.3Tahoe source contain disclaimers for source which has been "de-classified" and public. Asumptions: The hardest part of porting BSD will be the initial boot strapping and loading of a mini root. There have been lots of papers published on how to do it. The best way I know to do this is to ensure that the '532 have an Ethernet card and use a ROM based bootp to get instances of the test kernel. This assumes that you do this at a place which an Ethernet and a friendly host BSD system with a NS32 cross compiler. The '532 kernel should initial use NFS or RFS. Once up, we can build our own file system on the local disk. Then we take the box home! The NFS code is not free, but most of the kernel source is. -- -Edmund C. Lam (University of Waterloo)