On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 11:25:12AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Iov2gVy6LiYEE0pxQB@zelux6> Matthias Drochner writes:
> : Needless to say theat the current situation wrt console
> : drivers is a mess. This is most true for the i386, but at least
> : alpha and bebox have similar hardware and could share
> : some code.
> 
> The arc/pica port alos could share this code as well.  These boxes are
> "just" PC motherboards witha  MIPS chip tossed on.  Well, some of them
> have more doodads glued on, but this is fairly close first order
> approximation...
> 
> Warner
> 
>
Yep, and, as I understand it, the new Sun Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 basically
follow the "mostly PC hardware" approach as well.  Not, mind you, that NetBSD
currently supports the Ultra 5 and Ultra 10, but it would probably be a nice
thing to do eventually because they're (comparatively) fast and
(comparatively) cheap.  If I had one and an appropriate quantity of specs
(that may be the rub), I'd consider working on such a port myself.
-ben