On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, John D. Baker wrote:

[a good summary of mvme141 features]

It sounds like, as Bernd Walker mentioned, that documentation is the
stumbling block.

> As you can see, one of the things it really needs is support for
> more VME-bus peripheral devices.  There are some interesting things
> I've seen in the OpenBSD arena, such as the '328 SCSI board and
> the '376 Ethernet.

I believe a user of NetBSD/mvme68k is working slowly to port one or more
of the OpenBSD drivers to NetBSD. The main problem is the amount of
divergence in the VMEbus driver interface between the two OSs (NetBSD's
being completely bus_space(9)'d).

> I got interested in NetBSD-mvme68k for that same purpose--to perhaps
> work on a port to the '141-based system.  But it seems the problem
> is universal:  lack of programmer's documentation for the various
> boards involved.  Motorola doesn't seem to acknowledge their existance.
>
> If anyone has manuals on any of the above, share and enjoy!

Well, I now work for MCG (in the UK), but I have no access to the systems
holding all the old documentation. Maybe sometime down the line when I
establish some more contacts in the US...

Cheers, Steve