Call for testing on Motorola PowerPC machines

Tim Rightnour <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:04:20 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mvmeppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 t=
o me.
I am hoping to improve support for these machines, and if your machine ca=
n 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 pp=
cbug.=20

This image will not work on boards with DINK32 or OpenFirmWorks (unless t=
hey
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 s=
hould
be able to netboot it directly.  I use the following line in /etc/bootpta=
b to
netboot these images:

botien:\
 :sm=3D255.255.255.0:ht=3Dethernet:ha=3D000629ba4bf0:\
 :gw=3D192.168.10.11:ip=3D192.168.10.29:bf=3Dboot.fs:rp=3D/usr/src/distri=
b

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

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Tim Rightnour <[email protected]>
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