RE: Running NetBSD on Netgear appliances

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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> Behalf Of Matthias Scheler
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 7:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Running NetBSD on Netgear appliances
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> I've got a Netgear DG834G (UK PPPoA DSL router) and a WG602v2
> (802.11g WLAN access point) which both run Linux.
> 
> The WG602v2 is running "uClinux" a "Rockhopper" whatever that means.
> I'm not sure yet what kind of CPU it is using.
> 

"Rockhopper" was once used by NEC for their development board,
supporting (MIPS) Vr5432, Vr5500 and Vr7700.  Those CPUs do support MMU.

> The DG834G apparently has a MIPS CPU because the Linux kernel sources
> (they are in a directory called "linux-2.4.17_mvl21") only contain
> "arch/mips".

The distro is mvista linux v2.1.  Check .config file under the top of
the tree and you will find out which board and which CPU is configured
here.

> Porting NetBSD especially to the DG834G would be cool.

Drivers might be an issue but other stuff (timer, irq, CPU, etc) should
be easy.

Jun