mleone@neomedia.it (Marco Leone) writes:
> I would like to know if the NetBSD kernel can build on a 
> Motherboard ATX.
> Are there any kind of problem?

It works fine on an Intel Venus board, which is an ATX.

The only thing that sucks on the Venus is:

	1) The PS/2 kbd/mouse connectors are RX only.
	   One can not TX to the kbd or mouse to set the modes.  If
	   you have a mouse that comes up in a bad mode, you are out
	   of luck.  (eg. my mouse systems mouse is unusable, logitech
           works fine.)

	2) The advanced power management stuff is so advanced it
           powers down a running system that has plenty of disk
           activity. It hangs it a way that forces one to reset or
	   power cycle to get things moving again things.  Turn APM
	   off.

        3) The PNP support will mangle the INT and DMA selection in a
	   persistant fashion.  Once you stick in a card that makes
	   lavish INT and DMA demands, your system will double up INTs
	   to assign to your other cards.  These suboptimal INTs will
	   persist even after you remove the offending card.  I had to
	   open the box and jumper the "clear nvram" pins to get back
	   to sanity.

If you look the other way on these minor foibles you can get a darn
nice system thats both faster and cheaper then the Sparc stuff.

-wolfgang