Re: Newbie looking to figure out how to do a port!

[email protected] (Peter Seebach) Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:28:42 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, "Nathan J. Willia
ms" writes:
>This is a handy technique I've used as well. Again, if you've got a
>couple of LEDs on the board you can poke before you start an infinite
>loop, so much the better.

There might be some kind of LED, but I haven't found it.  I should read
the docs more.

>Now, if someone were paying you to do this, it would probably be
>worthwhile to invest in a JTAG tool to poke around at the early-stage
>booting (a RISCwatch for this board, I think), but probably not for a
>hobbyist.

I'm sort of getting paid.  I'm selling developerWorks "one or more articles"
on porting NetBSD to new hardware.

Frustratingly, NetBSD is so good that I doubt I'll have enough material for
a second article.

-s