Discussions of the use of NetBSD in embedded systems

Tim Rightnour | 13 Jul 2006 21:04

Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines


I'm looking for anyone who has a Motorola, or other machine with PPCBUG
firmware to test boot the following kernel and send the complete output to me.
I am hoping to improve support for these machines, and if your machine can boot
the image and produces viable output, it should be supportable under
NetBSD/prep.

http://www.garbled.net/tmp/prep-residual-boot.fs

I am especially interested in any MVME160x machines, or MPC82xx machines.  I
also suspect that the image will work on a Motorola Powerstack II with ppcbug. 

This image will not work on boards with DINK32 or OpenFirmWorks (unless they
also have PPCBUG, in which case you need to boot the image from PPCBUG)

The image is a complete netboot image, kernel and all in one file.  You should
be able to netboot it directly.  I use the following line in /etc/bootptab to
netboot these images:

botien:\
 :sm=255.255.255.0:ht=ethernet:ha=000629ba4bf0:\
 :gw=192.168.10.11:ip=192.168.10.29:bf=boot.fs:rp=/usr/src/distrib

(just place the image in /tftpboot/boot.fs, and enable bootpd and tftpd in
inetd.conf)

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Tim Rightnour <root <at> garbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/

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Matthias Drochner | 23 Jul 2006 21:16

Re: Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines


root <at> garbled.net said:
> I am especially interested in any MVME160x machines, or MPC82xx
> machines.  I also suspect that the image will work on a Motorola
> Powerstack II with ppcbug.  

I have a MVME2604 lying around here. Would it make sense
to test your image on it?

best regards
Matthias

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Tim Rightnour | 24 Jul 2006 10:30

Re: Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines


On 23-Jul-2006 Matthias Drochner wrote:
> I have a MVME2604 lying around here. Would it make sense
> to test your image on it?

Definately.  According to what I can find, this is an ideal candidate for
running NetBSD/prep.

---
Tim Rightnour <root <at> garbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/


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