NetBSD 10.1 on Acer PICA - Success !

[sadness <vampire%ipv7.net@localhost>]

Finally found the time to put my Acer PICA-61 board into a decent case.
Tested NetBSD 10.1 on it, with great success !
Installed from cdrom, let the installer create the 2Mb FAT12 partition 
for the bootloader, and it's now happily booting from disk, going into 
multi-user, and everything seems to be working fine.
I've just completed some small task on it, unpacked the pkgsrc (took 3 
hours), build some small packages, unpacked the source and it's now 
building it's own kernel.
It is slow (I was expecting a bit more speed out of of an R4400 clocked 
at 150Mhz) but it is working !
I'd like to have X running on it but I'm not sure there's any support 
for anything more than the vga console for it's ancient S3 805 videocard.

There's the boot log:
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
    2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
    2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,
    2024
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024
	mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/arc/compile/GENERIC
Acer PICA-61
total memory = 65536 KB
avail memory = 56976 KB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R4400 CPU (0x450) Rev. 5.0 with MIPS R4010 FPC 
Rev. 0.0
cpu0: 48 TLB entries, 16MB max page size
cpu0: 16KB/16B direct-mapped L1 instruction cache
cpu0: 16KB/16B direct-mapped write-back L1 data cache
jazzio0 at mainbus0
timer0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0000228
mcclock0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0004000: mc146818 compatible time-of-day clock
lpt0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0008000 intr 0
fdc0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0003000 intr 1
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
MAGNUM at jazzio0 addr 0xe000c000 intr 2 not configured
vga0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0800000 intr 3
wsdisplay0 at vga0 (kbdmux ignored): console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
sn0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0001000 intr 4: SONIC Ethernet
sn0: Ethernet address 00:20:02:00:08:01
asc0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0002000 intr 5: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
pckbc0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0005000 intr 6
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux ignored): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
wsmouse0 at pms0 (mux ignored)
pms at jazzio0 addr 0xe0005000 intr 7 not configured
com0 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0006000 intr 8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
com0: txfifo disabled
com1 at jazzio0 addr 0xe0007000 intr 9: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
com1: txfifo disabled
jazzisabr0 at mainbus0
isa0 at jazzisabr0 isa_io_base 0xe2000000 isa_mem_base 0xe3000000
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
WARNING: system needs entropy for security; see entropy(7)
timecounter: Timecounter "mips3_cp0_counter" frequency 75000000 Hz 
quality 100
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL_TM2110S, 300X> disk fixed
sd0: 2014 MB, 6810 cyl, 4 head, 151 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4124736 sectors
sd0: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <IBM, DNES30917SUN9.0G, SAD0> disk fixed
sd1: 8637 MB, 4926 cyl, 27 head, 133 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17689267 sectors
sd1: sync (160.00ns offset 5), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
cd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <PIONEER, CD-ROM DR-766, 1.00> cdrom 
removable
cd0: sync (200.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers
swwdog0: software watchdog initialized
boot device: sd1
root device (default sd1a):
dump device (default sd1b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
root file system type: ffs
kern.module.path=/stand/arc/10.1/modules
init path (default /sbin/init):
init: trying /sbin/init
entropy: best effort
entropy: ready

--
Giuliano Paolo Brunetti
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31231773@N02/sets/
Italian hobbyist DECnet network - http://decnet.ipv7.net