Re: About Kurobox

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Mar 31, 2008, at 05:53, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This week-end I played with my Kurobox
> (http://kurobox.com/revolution/what.html) and it now runs NetBSD/ 
> sandpoint
> 4.0_STABLE

Nice :)

> (http://www.tumfatig.net/dmesg/Kurobox/NetBSD%204.0_STABLE/dmesg.txt).
> This seem to be a PowerPC based box, that's why I talk about it  
> here :-)
>
> First, what makes it go under /sandpoint rather than /powerpc ?

mach/powerpc contains cpu-specific code used by (more or less) all  
powerpc-based ports.

> Are there only Mac based system under /powerpc ?

There is nothing mac-specific in arch/powerpc.

> Then, I had to apply externally provided patches onto the netbsd-4  
> source
> tree. There seem to exist patches for -HEAD too but I didn't try them
> (yet).

We'd appreciate it if you could give -current a shot - we rewrote  
half of the powerpc-specific code ( like interrupt handling,  
bus_space, bus_dma, PCI support and so on ) and there was a hell of a  
lot of development in the rest of the kernel as well ( and userland,  
like threading for instance ).
The right person to ask about sandpoint is Tohru Nishimura  
(nisimura%netbsd.org@localhost) - he wrote the sandpoint-specific code and  
actually made the port work properly again.

> What would make the patches go into the "official" source tree ?

The first step is to actually show it to someone ;)

have fun
Michael

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