RE: Port to Sun 386i

Nice grab on the docs.... I had a complete doc set (including all the
man pages, document rack, etc).  However, that was when I worked at Sun,
and despite the fact that I saved it from the trash, I didn't get it out
of there before I left.... and my manager would not let me take it because
I admitted it was Sun property.....  I'm sure it went into the recycle bin
less than a week after I left :-(.

I have a -150 and two -250 386i systems.  I also have a 486i system.

Time permitting, I can test things out ...  well... if I can find
my 386i keyboard/mouse/monitor cable setup....  I think I only have
one... possibly two... for 4 systems :-(.

-- Curt

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>I got my 386i today. It's a -250 model, complete with Hi-res Color FB
>and a single memory board, whichever one the -250 came with. I also
>got a reportedly somewhat flaky video/keyboard cable and a 20" Color
>Sun Monitor. 
>
>The real prize, however, is in the documentation. 
>
>Sun386i man Pages Supplement (December 1988)
>Sun386i Owner's Notes
>Sun386i Administrator's and Developer's Notes
>Field Service Notes
>Sun386i Owver's Bulletin SunOS release 4.0.1
>Installing Sun386i SunOS 4.0.1
>Sun386i Configuration Guide (February 1989)
>Replacement Pages for the Sun386i Developer's Guide
>Sun386i Developer's Guide (May 1988)
>Sun386i SNAP Administration
>Sun386i Advanced Administration (June 1988)
>Sun386i Advanced Administration (February 1989)
>Sun386i Administration Cookbook
>
>Will be reading and having fun with this guy, and hopefully someone
>else out there can test on a -150. 
>
>Thanks!
>
>Zach Lowry || Murfreesboro, TN || www.zachlowry.net
>Linux / *BSD / Irix / Solaris / Apple / Unix Network Administration
>
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>14 Different NetBSD-Supported Machines
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of David Brownlee
>> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:18 PM
>> To: Zach Lowry
>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected] Subject: Re: Port to Sun 386i
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Zach Lowry wrote:
>> 
>> > I am soon to recieve a Sun 386i, which I notice has not been
>> > ported to yet. Since for the past little bit I've been
>> > acquainting myself with my Sun 3/60 and 3/80s, I feel comfortable
>> > saying that I intend to port NetBSD to this unique machine.
>> >
>> 	Excellent news - do you know if its a 150 or 250 (the 250 had
>> 	had max 16M rather than 8M and had IIRC an extra cache)
>> 
>> > I'm looking for advice, however, since I've bever done this sort
>> > of thing before. Would it be best to start with the i386 port,
>> > remove all devices except those explicitly available in the 386i
>> > and then merge drivers for Framebuffers and the like from the
>> > sun3 port? From what I understand, the normal color and B&W
>> > framebuffers on the 386i correspond to the cg3 and bw2, but
>> > additionally there exists a cg5 card and a VGA card for DOS
>> > emulation under SunOS.
>> 
>> 	That would make sense - probably start with either using
>> 	the PROM console or serial console to minimise the amount
>> 	of driver writing to getting something booting.
>> 
>> > I'm also aware that there existed memory add-ons in the form of
>> > ISA cards, could anyone clarify on these boards, and would it be
>> > possible to support them?
>> 
>> 	I don't remember any ISA memory boards, but it _should_ be
>> 	possible to support standard ISA boards, possible DMA
>> 	considerations notwithstanding :)
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 		David/absolute          -- www.netbsd.org: No hype 
>> required --
>> 
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