Re: Current EFIKA status?

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

Aymeric Vincent wrote:

>> I wonder what the status of his Efika port is?
> 
> I reported at that time on this list,

I remember, but hoped it had advanced since then.


> and I had -current running with
> root over ethernet except that there is a big timeout on every read
> from the network through openfirmware, which makes it very slow to
> boot to multiuser.

Yes, tried that too.
The ethernet interface and the serial port should be the first to implement.


> BTW, I started to read the doc of the BestComm and started the
> infrastructure in the source tree that you mentioned, but:
> 
> . I am in Poland for one year and couldn't bring the Efika with me

Efikas are not allowed in Poland? Or the board was too big? ;)


> . I saw on Genesi's website that they dropped the Efika and would use
> a different Freescale chip. Not sure if it has BestComm or not, I
> couldn't find any doc. It's kind of boring to port NetBSD to
> machines which don't ship anymore.

Really? 95% of the hardware supported by NetBSD is no longer produced. I
always thought NetBSD is about the fun to port the OS to as many platforms
as possible, no matter how old or how useful they are.

That's the reason I prefer NetBSD over the other BSDs.


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