Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> Hi, James,
> 
> The short answer is ``not until after 1.3 is out''.
> 
> The long answer:<<snip>>
 
> This is all very good stuff, and when it's done it'll be even easier
> to glue support for the Q-bus machines into NetBSD/pmax.  But adding
> 5400 support won't be doable until after 1.3 gets frozen, at least.
> 
> Also, now we have a machine-independent interface for bus I/O and DMA,
> the right thing is to get both the vax and the decstation Unibus/Qbus
> code to use it.  That will take a while too.
> 
> >I would be willing to work on it, however I am a student with rather
> >limited programming experience.  I would be eager to do anything I could
> >to facilitate the 5400 port.
> 
> Perhaps after 1.3 is out, we can see about trying remote debugging
> of experimental kernels.

Which seems to me a good idea. I've got a DS5500 in a more desperate 
situation (*NO* OS), but that one will have to wait until after my Alpha 
is up and running NetBSD...

IFIRC, Gnu C can be configured for cross-platform, cross-OS compilation?
If that's the case, I'll put the Alpha to work.......

Stan