On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:39:47AM -0000, Tristan Aston wrote:
> ..has anyone experimented with running BSD on a 
> cabalt raq ?   ..I have a raq lying idle, and would
> be interested in any news regarding a port...

For anyone wanting to finish it soon, I have some early code
written for it.

The hardware is not terribly complicated:

Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................16M
 6.Bank 1:.................................0M
 7.Bank 2:.................................0M
 8.Bank 3:.................................0M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Decompressing -- done.
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.4P (RAQ) #70: Wed Dec 29 04:19:41 CET 1999
    soren@meow:/usr/home/soren/netbsd/src/sys/arch/cobalt/compile/RAQ
16384 KB memory, 13624 KB free, 920 KB in 230 buffers
mainbus0 (root): RaQ 2
com0 at mainbus0 addr 0x1c800000
cpu0 at mainbus0
cpu0: QED RM5200 CPU Rev. 10.0 with built-in FPU Rev. 10.0
cpu0: L1 cache: 32KB/32B Instruction, 32KB/32B Data, two way set associative
cpu0: No L2 cache
gt0 at mainbus0 addr 0x14000000
pci0 at gt0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Galileo Technology GT-64011/GT-64111 System Controller, rev 17
tlp0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1
pci_intr_map: not implemented
pci_intr_establish: not implemented
tlp0: interrupting at XXX
tlp0: Ethernet address 00:10:e0:00:69:04
lxtphy0 at tlp0 phy 1: LXT970 10/100 media interface, rev. 3
lxtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C586 (Apollo VP) PCI-ISA Bridge, rev 37
pciide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 1: VIA Technologies VT82C586A IDE Controller
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL CR4.3A>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 4110MB, 14848 cyl, 9 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8418816 sectors
wd0: 32-bits data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
pciide0: no compatibility interrupt for use by primary channel
pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 9 function 2: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller (rev. 0x02)
uhci0: can't map i/o space
boot device: <unknown>
root device: 


-- 
Soren