Subject: Re: Fwd: Porting to microblaze architecture?
To: None <netbsd-ports@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 04/19/2004 18:31:01
In article <20040416034508.30331.qmail@mail.tenet.res.in>,
vgirish <vgirish@tenet.res.in> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>We are developing a low cost low end computer for villages in India. We
>wish to get NetBSD running on our FPGA which does not have an MMU. 
>
>We are using the core from Xilinx by name Microblaze. 
>
>Please let us know how to proceed. We came to know from the website
>that NetBSD ports to non MMU architectures require more work. 
>
>Does this mean that NetBSD has never been ported to a non MMU architecture? 
>
>Please give us information on how to proceed on the same.

Yes, this means that NetBSD has never been ported to a CPU that lacks
an MMU. Which in turn means that the first such port will be much more
difficult than a regular port.

christos