On May 20,  9:20pm, Peter Berg wrote:
> Subject: Re: Digital NC (was: Wakefield show)
> > What we were demoing at Wakefield was a reference design (maybe this wasn't
> > made quite clear enough). You will have to wait until people start
producing
> > products based on it. I'm sure that any interesting announcements will make
> > their way onto this mailing list in due course. Watch this space...
> >
> > PS NCOS2 will currently act as an X-Server. I don't know what NCI's future
> > plans are but I think it is probably safe to say that someone somewhere
will
> > support X on it.
>
> Only to make things clearer:
>
> Will the NC be able to run a complete RiscBSD including X-windows so that it
> can be used the same way under BSD as currently the RiscPC's ? I'm not
> intrested in any kind of NC OS, I like to know whether it would be possible
to
> run it with RiscBSD or with a customized NetBSD/arm32 so that I either can
use
> it as a fast SA-110 diskless workstation, netbooted X-terminal or even with a
> customized NetBSD version for a completly diffrent kind of usage then a NC
> (spectrum analyzer or a kind of 'set-top-box'-style application with
> selfwritten software).

Yes. It will be supported by the NetBSD master tree.

> Is there something like the RiscPC console device on it or is it even
> compatible to the existing console driver on the RPC ?

It isn't currently compatible, however I might be able to do something about
that once I've finished my portable console code.

Cheers

Rob