"Chris Kalisiak" wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
>    I was wandering around the NetBSD site, looking at both the pmax and 
> Alpha ports, and I noticed the following:
> 
> 
> Hardware the we do not currently support, but get questions about from time 
> to time:
> [...]
> PrestoServe NVRAM on DECsystem 5100 and 5000/2xx machines
> [...]
> Note the primary obstacle to support of all but the very last item is 
> non-availability of sample hardware for development.
> 
> 
> If anyone is interested in developing support for the PrestoServe NVRAM 
> card, and has a compatible system, drop me a line.

The wording may be a bit suspect there.  I believe that there's no
programming info around for the boards, and developing a clean device
driver would also be difficult.  There have been discussions about
PrestoServe boards on this list in the past...

Hardware availability is not a problem - I think all my 5000/* machines
have PrestoServe boards simply because we've got so many of them lying
around, and they don't stop NetBSD from working.  My 5100 also has a
PrestoServe SIMM.

Simon.