Looking for a consultant...

[Dave Hudak <dhudak%terabeam.com@localhost>]

All,

We are developing a PowerPC 8248-based board that will run NetBSD for 
our products.  One of our engineers began with the mveppc port and has 
had some early success.  However, he is now to the point where he is 
encountering an error when it gets to an exec of /sbin/init - it fails 
with ENAMETOOLONG.  The kernel is reading all values of 0xff's, which 
could be something simple like a missing startup call, but very likely 
is a symptom of the cache or virtual memory not being initialized 
correctly.

Since this is our first design with this processor, I am looking to 
find someone to verify or add an mvmeppc port for the 603e variant 
that's used in the 8248 core.  This definitely includes a bit of 
assembly code in early startup (locore.S) to initialize the cache and 
special processor registers for NetBSD (this is normally done by the 
BIOS and/or standalone NetBSD bootloader code), and may require some 
additions to the generic OEA (60x) code in NetBSD itself.

Please contact me directly if interested.  Thanks!

Kind Regards,
Dave Hudak
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