Hello:
       Sorry to take up bandwidth here, but I'm interested in trying to
   port
   NetBSD to a new hardware platform. To do this, I need to start with a
   new boot rom (none exists). Does anyone know of a good R5K or 7K
   software emulator which would make initial devopment easier?


there are various MIPS based simulations included with the gnu
simulations, buildable as standalone or as part of GDB.  see
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/ for more details.


.mrg.