Re: Port to Sun 386i

Miod Vallat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > 	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)

This is wrong, BTW; the 150 will happily run with more than 8MB. I don't
know why docs keep saying it can't.

> That's what I plan on. In fact, I wonder how far just booting the
> i386 Kernel will get...

Nowhere, simply because it will not be recognized as a valid executable.
SunOS on the 396i uses COFF. To load something else you'll have to start
by writing a new bootloader.

Miod
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