Anyone working on a BSD port?

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2 total messages Started by DALL Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:46

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Author: DALL
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:46

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 >  Some time ago, there was talk about porting BSD (net2 i presume)
 > to the pc532. Is anyone working on it, or did the idea just fade
 > away? If not, is there anything organized or just some solitude
 > hacking?
 > 
 >  I have recently (ie. today) been thinking about setting up a
 > crosscompiling environment for the pc532 on our sparcserver. The
 > purpose is trying to port BSD (didn't guess that, did you? ;) Have
 > anyone else already done this or do I have to start from scratch?
 > 
 >  I guess gcc and gas are the best choices for compiling, and ld, ar,
 > ranlib and libc is available both from FSF and the net2 release. Do
 > I need anything else?

I have done this (cross compiling on a sparc, not porting bsd). I can
successfully cross compile mach on a Sparc II for the pc532. Gcc2 and
gas work without change (well, I know of one gas bug unrelated to
cross compiling but apart from that gas works).

The binutils (ld, ar, ranlib etc) are a bit more of a problem. I
believe the current binutils support cross compilation, but I don't
know if it supports the 532. There were significant changes required
to support the 32k series in earlier versions of binutils. I sent in
the changes, but never checked to see if they made it. I am using an
old version of binutils with added support for endian independence and
32k support.

Ian

Re: Anyone working on a BSD port?

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Author: Snoopy
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:23

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In article <920724141615.10f42@hfrd.dsto.gov.au> DALL@hfrd.dsto.GOV.AU writes:

| >  Some time ago, there was talk about porting BSD (net2 i presume)
| > to the pc532. Is anyone working on it, or did the idea just fade
| > away?

I don't know about the rest of the gang, but I'm still working on it.
There is a mailing list, send mail to sopwith!532bsd-request to join.

Between the net-2 tape, 386bsd, and the freely distributable pieces
from the pc-532 Minix port, it should be possible to glue pieces together
and build a 532bsd kernel without writing tooooo much from scratch.

My current project is teaching the PROM code about UTek style disk
labels so that I can move disks between systems without pain.  I'm
also building a boot block to find /vmunix on a BSD Fast Filesystem.

Once that is working, the big decision will be choosing between
native BSD and Mach with a BSD server.  (input welcome!)
What parts of the Mach port to the pc-532 are available and where
can we get them?

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