Re: NetBSD for EFIKA?

Frank Wille <[email protected]> Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:51 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc
Organization Privates Internet Ostwestfalen/Lippe e.V.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter H. Fröhlich wrote:

> Seeing as older EFIKA stuff is now relatively cheap (not compared to  
> the real world full of Intel/AMD quad cores, but anyway :-) I was  
> wondering how NetBSD is faring on the EFIKA?

Last time I looked it did no longer crash. But more than the PCI bus
and your graphics board will not be recognized, because all the
drivers for the 5200B-internal stuff (USB, network, ATA, interrupts)
still have to be written.


> I saw that Debian seems  to 
> work (might even be supported by the EFIKA guys themselves I  guess?), 
> but I'd prefer NetBSD for consistency with my other boxes.

Yes, I feel the same, and I would like to tackle it sooner or later,
after the Pegasos2 port is working.


Regards,

-- 
Frank Wille