Subject: Re: Hardware Support Question.
To: J. Buck Caldwell <buck_c@polygon.com>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: port-mvme68k
Date: 11/06/1998 12:01:42
In principle, any mc68020 (with MMU) or later (e.g. mc68030, mc68040) based
system can run NetBSD. The question is going to be one of device drivers
for the hardware that the system has attached to it - can you get enough
hardware documentation to write device drivers for the things you
absolutely need (probably network and disk and serial ports as a bare
minimum)? There also has to be enough information so that you can figure
out how to boot the beast (i.e. load the UNIX... er, NetBSD kernel into RAM
and start it running).

Who knows? You might get lucky and find that your system uses common
peripherals for which NetBSD already has drivers (e.g. NCR 5380 SCSI
controller, Zilog 8530 SCC).

Solve those problems, and away you go.

	Erik <fair@clock.org>