On 01-Mar-00 Simon Burge wrote:

> Are these the cute little "appliance boxes" that Linux runs on?  If so,
> and source is available (which it should be for Linux due to the GPL,
> yada, yada, ...) then a BSD port shouldn't be too difficult, but I'm not
> aware of anyone working on it at the moment.

..Yup, thats them   ....looks like source is available

> Is the Linux equivalent of "dmesg" to show what devices are configured
> available?  That should give a _very_ rough indication of the amount of
> work needed to start a NetBSD port.
> 
> Simon.

the current dmesg on my machine:

Loading R4000 MMU routines.
CPU revision is: 00002810
Primary ICACHE 16K (linesize 32 bytes)
Primary DCACHE 16K (linesize 32 bytes)
ns16550: console I/O
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 149.91 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14988k/16380k available (932k kernel code, 460k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  available.
Linux version 2.0.34 (root@ninka.cobaltmicro.com) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Fri
Aug 28 19:39:04 PDT 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x1c800000 (irq = 7) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Cobalt LCD Driver v2.10
loop: registered device at major 7
ide: Cobalt MicroServer IDE controller.
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000cc00-0x1000cc07
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EL2.5A, 2445MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=5300/15/63, UDMA
ide0 at 0x100001f0-0x100001f7,0x100003f6 on irq 14
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
tulip.c:v0.76 4/22/97 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: DEC 21142 Tulip at 0x10100000, 00 10 e0 00 0d 8f, IRQ 4

eth0: Old format EEPROM on 'Cobalt 27' board.  Using substitute media control
info.
eth0: EEPROM default media type MII 10baseT.
eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: Using user-specified media MII.



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