Subject says it all: does anyone have any experience with NetBSD on the
Tadpole SPARCbook-3?

This is a sun4m laptop machine with a Weitek P9000 frame buffer.  It has
SCSI disks, and a PC-ish keyboard.

Tadpole no longer supports the SPARCbook-3 and will release absolutely no
information about their Weitek P9000 driver.  I suppose one could
disassemble /usr/sys/sun4m/OBJ/weitek.o but that would be wrong.
Personally, I wouldn't know what I was looking at anyway; I need source
code with misleading and incorrect comments to figure anything out!

I'd love to ditch SunOS in favor of NetBSD.  While slowlaris will run on
the SPARCbook-3, I am not the least bit interested.

XFree86 has a P9000 driver, but I am a hardware hacker, and porting
something like that is beyond my meager software abilities.

Has anybody out there gotten NetBSD running on a SPARCbook-3?

John Wilkes

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