Re: Intel XScale NetBSD?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dave Mazzoni wrote:
>  I'm very interested in BSD for embedded systems (such as the Intel XScale). 
> I haven't found much embedded literature for BSD in embedded systems. 
> Considering they comprise many orders of magnitude MORE "processors" in the 
> world, having a BSD version tailored for embedded use would be very nice. 
> Have I missed something on the net?  I'm not sure where to start if I 
> actually wanted to try the port myself.

You want the "evbarm" port of NetBSD, which is for "ARM based EValuation 
Boards", see http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/evbarm/.

Source is in /usr/src/sys/evbarm, see
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/evbarm/ etc.

The mailing list archive is at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/

A bit of general information about NetBSD on embedded systems can be found 
here: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/embed.html

An article on how to do cross-compiling from a 1.6.x system can be found 
here: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/xdev.html

The latest (binary) release can be found at
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.2/evbarm/. Be sure to read the 
one of the INSTALL.* files in there, they contain further hints for 
installation. Please note also that NetBSD 2.0 will be released within the 
next few days, which may be a major leap forward on all platforms, 
including embedded ones like XScale, but also other ARM based 
CPUs, PowerPC, and MIPS.


  - Hubert

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