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Re: bsd 4.4 port for pc532

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From: Rick Rodman
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:20
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Jordan writes:

> I've had gcc producing reasonable bsd binaries for the '532 for some
> time (it's not hard).  When linked with my stand-alone stdio library,
..
> The hard part (as I see it) is extracting the MMU setup code from the
> mach port and somehow grafting it into 386BSD, as well as autoconf'ing

Why? The 386's MMU is almost the same as the 532's.  There shouldn't be
any work needed here at all!

> One ofh the problems I see is hosting all this in a coordinated
> fashion.  Phil appears to be trying to host from minix whereas I'm
> hosting from a PC that shares the same SCSI disk (makes populating a
> BSD fs with cross-compiled binaries a lot easier!).

How are you doing this?  By setting the SCSI ID of the PC or the PC532 to !=7?
That in itself would be interesting.  Can you do host-to-host too?
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