Re: BSD port for 32k (was: Re: The 'cost' of a '532 system.)

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From: Edmund C. Lam
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1988 06:23

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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)
	<eclam@maytag.waterloo.edu>

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