Re: Porting Guide

[Scott Telford <s.telford%vibtech.co.uk@localhost>]

On Friday, Dec 10, 2004, at 08:35 Europe/London, Jason Maestri wrote:

>   Okay, so this might be a dumb question, but here goes.  I am 
> currently
> porting NetBSD to an embedded ARM board.  NetBSD always touts itself 
> as being
> "the worlds most portable operating system", but I've never seen any 
> actual
> documentation on porting it.  Am I just not looking in the right 
> places?

You're right, there doesn't seem to be much "official" documentation on 
this subject. However a number of people have written papers on their 
experiences of porting NetBSD, which may be useful. Check out, for 
instance:

http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/ushakov.ps (JavaStation support in 
/sparc)

http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/full_papers/linden/linden.pdf 
(/amd64 port)

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/291.paper.pdf (/mac68k port, pretty old 
paper)

Regards,
--
Scott Telford.


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