Subject: Re: Sun 3/E
To: Allan 'Norm' Crain <allanc@idea-inc.com>
From: Tom Trebisky <tom@kofa.as.arizona.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/25/1997 12:09:55
Allan 'Norm' Crain happened to mention:
> 
> Does anyone out there have the ability and inclination to get NetBSD/Sun3
> working with the Sun 3/E and its SCSI/Ethernet board?

Sounds like great fun.  I have these items of hardware.
I have even thought of doing this.

Two limitations come immediately to mind, one is my available time.
(This would have to be project number 29 on my list -- I know I have
at least 24 items on the head of the list, and I have been numbering
items starting at 25 ...).  Number 28 is getting /dev/rst0 to work
without the panic: done < 0 ; strategy broken thing.

The other limitation is that the 3/E CPU itself has a mere 4M of ram
-- not that this would be absolutely fatal, but it would make it pretty
much an exercise in completing the NetBSD-sun3 suite rather than anything
truly useful (maybe I am wrong).  The scsi/ethernet board could be used
in other configurations (such as in a 9U to 6U VME adapter with just
about any VME sun CPU you might care to name), so a driver for it
could have utility for a wider audience.

	Tom

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