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Re: About Kurobox



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Hello,

On Mar 31, 2008, at 05:53, Joel CARNAT wrote:
Hello,

This week-end I played with my Kurobox
(http://kurobox.com/revolution/what.html) and it now runs NetBSD/ sandpoint
4.0_STABLE

Nice :)

(http://www.tumfatig.net/dmesg/Kurobox/NetBSD%204.0_STABLE/dmesg.txt).
This seem to be a PowerPC based box, that's why I talk about it here :-)

First, what makes it go under /sandpoint rather than /powerpc ?

mach/powerpc contains cpu-specific code used by (more or less) all powerpc-based ports.

Are there only Mac based system under /powerpc ?

There is nothing mac-specific in arch/powerpc.

Then, I had to apply externally provided patches onto the netbsd-4 source
tree. There seem to exist patches for -HEAD too but I didn't try them
(yet).

We'd appreciate it if you could give -current a shot - we rewrote half of the powerpc-specific code ( like interrupt handling, bus_space, bus_dma, PCI support and so on ) and there was a hell of a lot of development in the rest of the kernel as well ( and userland, like threading for instance ). The right person to ask about sandpoint is Tohru Nishimura (nisimura%netbsd.org@localhost) - he wrote the sandpoint-specific code and actually made the port work properly again.

What would make the patches go into the "official" source tree ?

The first step is to actually show it to someone ;)

have fun
Michael

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