Re: SNI RM400

Simon Burge <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:50:27 +1100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips
Organization	Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:19:19PM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote:
> 
>  > I've got a SNI (Siemens-Nixdorf) RM400C machine which currently runs
>  > SINIX 5.42.

...

>  > There seems to be support for the RM200 in the Linux-MIPS port, due to a
>  > lack of a Linux machine I wasn't able to cross-compile a kernel for
>  > linux-mips(el) yet, though, in order to try that.
>  > 
>  > Any chance I can get that running on NetBSD/sgimips?  It seems to be
>  > the closest relation to me.
> 
> This platform will probably require a new port.  Thankfully, it's pretty
> easy to throw a MIPS port together.

A very quick look at Linux suggests that the RM200 is an ARC-style
machine.  I have no idea how different an RM400 is, but maybe these
can be shoe-horned into NetBSD/arc?

Simon.
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