Subject: Re: Omron Luna/88k?
To: Jeffrey D. McMahill <jma7+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Christopher R. Bowman <crb@glue.umd.edu>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 05/15/1997 03:20:22
>Has anyone tried porting NetBSD to the Omron Luna/88k?  If not,
>would anyone other than me be interested?  (Has anyone other than
>me even heard of such a machine??)
>
>It has 4 (25MHz) Motorola 88100 processors, each with an 88200 MMU.
>
>At least some of the Mach 3.0 source code is available, other than that
>all I have is 88100/88200 specific documentation.
>(The machines I have are running Mach 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0)
>
>Has there been any work done on any 88k machines?  I saw an old post in the
>archives about this, but no evidence that this got very far.
>
>Also, is there any work being done with multiprocessor support in NetBSD?
>
>Whats the best way to go about doing an initial port to a new machine
>like this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>   -Jeff

Its been a long time since I read the 88100/88200 books, but didn't they
require a pair of mmus per cpu?  One for data and one for instructions?

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