I've just remembered I intended to mention this to the world (or a small
part of it) when the CVS server came back, so...

As some people have noticed, I'm working on getting NetBSD running on
architecture 2 (and 2a) ARM machines.  This basically means the Acorn
Archimedes and successors (though obviously not the machines NetBSD/arm32
runs on).  As a result of some interest from the rest of the world, I've
brought my work up to date with NetBSD-current, and I'm currently trying
to persuade my IRQ handlers to behave.

Answers to a few obvious questions:

Q: What's the point?
A: Hack value, mostly.

Q: When will it be ready?
A: Who knows?  If I don't get bored, we might have init running in a few
   months.  If I do get bored (and no-one else does it), it could be
   years.  I haven't got an awful lot of spare time.

Q: How can I find out how it's going?
A: <URL:http://mail-index.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/projects.cgi?mode=viewproj&
    projnum=64> or <URL:http://cvs.tartarus.org/netbsd-arm26/>

Q: How can I help?
A: There's a TODO list somewhere in CVS, but it's mostly single-threading
   for now.  A better bootloader, DDB/KGDB support and sorting out a
   sensible cross-building environment could all be usefully be done now,
   though.

-- 
Ben Harris