Subject: Re: No Ubicom IP3K CPU support?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/16/2007 02:06:43
In article <20070115201840.GB26354@drowsy.duskware.de>,
Martin Husemann  <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:41:46AM +0000, Dieter wrote:
>> As far as I can tell searching with google, NetBSD doesn't run on
>> the Ubicom IP3K (e.g. IP3020).
>
>http://www.ubicom.com/news/articles/2003/20030421_IP3023_NPU.html says:
>
> ``With generous amounts of SRAM on chip, the IP3023 doesn't need instruction
>   and data caches or a memory-management unit (MMU).ŽŽ
>
If they were selling houses:

Since we bought thick sweaters and jackets, we have gotten rid of
all the expensive heaters from our home.

>So NetBSD will not run on it. (Or, more precisely: a port would be realy
>hard)

christos