Subject: Re: VMEBus for network
To: None <port-mvme68k@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-mvme68k
Date: 12/08/2000 19:34:04
Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org> wrote;

>> I've seen a lot of 68k VME board with IDE interfaces. What are the odds of
>> getting that working under NetBSD/mvme68k? My ideal machines would sport a
>
> Can you provide a reference for these boards? It's possible some of them
> may work with NetBSD/mvme68k with a wee bit of tweaking as several
> manufacturers have put out near "clones" of the Motorola boards.

Please check also http://www.densan.com/vme/vmeproducts.html

The company has been manufacturing VME products to replace aging Moto's
MVMEs.  There are bunch of CPU families supported.  (The English site
does not mention to new QED RM5200 and PowerPC 750 products)  All
design shares a common system ASIC which mimicks the MVME's PCC2
descenders.  I have (Japanese) documents for MIPS products at hand,
they seem sufficient to help porting NetBSD.  The most challenging part
of the porting effort would be to build and implement comfortable "UNIX
grade" PROM monitor smart enough to run BOOTP/DHCP/TFTP/NFS stuff as
well as SIOP SCSI.

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology