>I have finally installed NetBSD on NEC Image RISC
>Station. I downloaded the sources and unzipped the
>files.
>
>How do we compile the kernel. in the dir
>/usr/src/sys/arch/pica/conf there are two files
>GENERIC and PICA and some other make files.
>
>When I tried to copy the GENERIC to a new name RF4 and
>I did "config  RF4" I get error message. I thought
>that is the way to config and compile the kernel 

That is generally how you go about preparing for a compile of the kernel.  
Perhaps you need newer versions of 'config' and 'make'

you can get these from CVS or from the tar directory
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/config.tar.gz

>Could you please tell me if there is any special
>procedure I need to follow to compile the Kernel for
>ARC port.

Are you compiling -current or 1.4.2?

....maki....