Subject: Re: NetBSD on Enterprise 250
To: None <eric.villiers@mail.dotcom.fr>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/02/1999 09:34:44
> Sorry if this is a already discussed question but, does anyone know if a
> port to the Sun Enterprise 250 of NetBSD 1.4.1 is planned in a near future?
> I saw that there is a work in progress around Ultra 5/10 but nothing on
> E250.

The E250 is similar enough to the Ultra 5/10 that getting it to work
shouldn't be too hard.  The main difference is the on-board glm SCSI
controller, for which we would need a driver, and the differences
between the UltraIIi's on-chip PCI bus and the E250's separate PCI
controllers.

But I wouldn't depend on it since it will be a lot of work.  (Even
getting an Ultra 5 to work will be a lot of work.)  Anyway, unless we
get some more volunteers it won't be happening in the near future.

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