> Right,
 > Now we know who we are is it possible to sort out the current position at
 > each site.  I for one am struggling with getting NetBSD onto my 3400 but
 > not as hard as I am struggling to get documentation to let me start looking
 > at drivers and the like.
 > 
 > Would it be possible for those who are currently working on the ports to
 > list out where they are and then establish some form of interim baseline
 > that we can get our systems onto so that developmetn can start?.

	OK, here's where I'm at. Bear in mind, this is a time-is-available
project, and time usually isn't very available :-) I have Bertram's pre-alpha
port of NetBSD-1.1A running on the VS2000. It's on the net and everything.
I built it on the uVax II, which is currently running Ragge's V1.2 kernel.
It is also on the net, and having a RA81, it's the nfs server for the VS2000.

	I am attempting to do about three things right now:

1. Modify the sources for the VS2000 kernel to work with the V1.2 source tree.
   This is non-trivial, and might have been a bad idea, since I think I threw
   away my 1.1A source tree in the process :-(   In retrospect, item #2 below
   would have been a lot easier had I not done this.

2. Once (1) is finished, I will address the task of writing the code to make
   the VS2000 bitmapped display work as a reasonable console (bertram's
   code uses only the serial port as console). This is non-trivial because
   DEC decided to use non-PIC code in the system ROM, so I can't use any of
   it except maybe the fonts. Grrrr.

3. While these are in progress, I'm supposed to be exercising Bertran's SCSI
   driver code for the TK50 on ths VS2000. So far so good, but I have some
   minor but maddening hardware problems to clear up before I can do a genuine
   test.

	If anyone else is working on any of these items, I'd appreciate hearing
from you. Perhaps we can help each other, or at least commiserate.


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