Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to Netgear appliances
To: None <tech-ports@netbsd.org>
From: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
List: tech-ports
Date: 09/22/2005 14:16:15
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:27 am, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> I think if that someone had time, he'd just do it.
> (That's not saying I know if there's a someone, but time is a general
> issue). Maybe start poking on your own. Then release early and see what
> happens - NetBSD supports already a number of MIPS platforms so there may
> be a good base for start. Biggest problem is probably getting the kernel
> into the machine, and finding documentation about the hardware.

Good insight, I didn't anticipate loading a kernel to be difficult; it is. 
I've had the foregone conclusion that documentation, other than some GPL 
code, is totally impossible to obtain without a NDA.

> If you find anything, post it here so others can work from that.

I'll cover this in another message to port-mips.

	Jonathan Kollasch