Subject: Re: Newbie looking to figure out how to do a port!
To: None <tech-ports@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: tech-ports
Date: 02/17/2006 09:28:42
In message <mtuy80a6m4r.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>, "Nathan J. Willia
ms" writes:
>This is a handy technique I've used as well. Again, if you've got a
>couple of LEDs on the board you can poke before you start an infinite
>loop, so much the better.

There might be some kind of LED, but I haven't found it.  I should read
the docs more.

>Now, if someone were paying you to do this, it would probably be
>worthwhile to invest in a JTAG tool to poke around at the early-stage
>booting (a RISCwatch for this board, I think), but probably not for a
>hobbyist.

I'm sort of getting paid.  I'm selling developerWorks "one or more articles"
on porting NetBSD to new hardware.

Frustratingly, NetBSD is so good that I doubt I'll have enough material for
a second article.

-s