> Folks,
>   Nearly a year ago, there was a thread here regarding VAXBI support.
> It was between Paul Vixie and I, I think...But here is a chunk:
> 
> >>   Can anyone comment on the possibility of VAXBI support?  I know it's
> >> a complicated bus and I think it's not too well documented.  However,
> >> BI machines are becoming *very* cheap on the used market, and some of
> >> them are really sweet machines, IMHO.
> >
> >chris torek did VAXBI support for BSD4.3 back when he was in maryland.  as
> >far as i know the support got back to berkeley and appeared in 4.3-reno.
> >just getting the VAXBI and DEBNT and KDB50 drivers out of 4.3-reno would
> >not torque any code lawyers since it was all original work.  the upper layer
> >interfaces are all different, of course, but these drivers would give you
> >a good starting point (better than the one chris had.)
> 
> 
>   Well, I've got some BI hardware here now...an 8350, which can easily
> be turned into an 8250, with a KDB50, DEBNT, DMB32, and KLESI-B.
> There's even a DWBUA in there for neat stuff.  I would *really* like
> to see NetBSD on this thing.  Hey, it's got personality.
> 
:-) I committed support for the KA820/825 CPUs and KDB50 about a week
ago. It's in -current and will show up when 1.2 is released. I am
working on DEBNA support right now.

-- Ragge