>still too high price. AFAIR NetBSD works on the thing with minimal mods,
>its just that you need to re-flash the boot code with something that can
>load the kernels first, which is the most major obstacle.

I would have thought it would be easy enough to massage the kernel into a form 
that NeTTrom (the NetWinder firmware) could cope with.  Normally it expects 
an ELF image but it will also handle flat binaries. 

p.