Detailled setup instructions are available on the port-arm mailing list and Paul's homepage. Paul is also looking for feedback on the port, so if you have a Mini2440 board, give it a spin and report back to Paul!

[Tags: arm, dmesg, friendlyarm, Hardware, mini2440]

• Part 1: Embedded Linux cross-development
• Part 2: An introduction to eCos
• Part 3: Porting a screen-management utility to eCos
• Part 4: Interfacing with flash and avoiding file systems
• Part 5: Porting NetBSD to the TAMS 3011
• Part 6: Booting NetBSD on new hardware, the saga begins

Force10 Networks make high performance gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet switch/routers. NetBSD is the base for their FTOS software.

[Tags: force10, Hardware, Products]

[Tags: Hardware]

Ports of GCC and binutils are in pkgsrc to get started, see pkgsrc/cross/avr*. Some work may be needed to update to latest versions to get support for AVR32.

[Tags: atmel, avr32, Hardware]

About the hardware, the Pegasos homepage says that ``The Pegasos platform is a flexible PowerPC based mainboard and swappable CPU card that can be deployed in a variety of configurations from a thin client to a server. The Pegasos utilizes a standardized abstraction layer and a customized implementation of IEEE1275 compliant Open Firmware that allows the platform to leverage less expensive components and peripherals directed at the standard PC market, while providing PowerPC advantages of lower power consumption, lower operating temperatures and higher reliability. The platform is supported by multiple operating systems and development communities. The Pegasos is capable of adapting to commercial and industrial markets.''

[Tags: Hardware, ofppc, pegasos]

More information on the hardware is available in the Linux on the Sun JavaStation NC HOWTO, which tells us that an Espresso is ``extremely rare to find. It was never available for sale in quantities to either the general public or the initial JavaStation deployments, limiting the model's production quantity. To call this "Generation Three" of the JavaStation may be improper, as Espresso is nothing like the generation three JavaStation written about in early Sun marketing literature. The Espresso was designed as an extension of the Krups. It was geared to sites that wanted a little bit more functionality and expansion capability from their JavaStations: a cross between an NC and a workstation. Espresso is powered by the same 110Mhz MicroSPARC IIep chip as Krups . It's mainboard is similar to Krups, with the addition of PCI slots and an IDE channel for local hard disks. The IDE on Espresso was not enabled in the demo units. Those who have tried to make it work have concluded the wiring is incorrect, and it requires a hardware rework to get going. Espresso continues with the PS2 keyboard and PS2 mouse ports from Mr. Coffee and Krups. Espresso uses the same 168-pin, 3.3V unbuffered EDO DIMMs as Krups. The maximum amount of memory for Espresso is reported to be 96MB. As with the Mr. Coffee and Krups , the number "xx" in the Sun option number refers to the amount of memory shipped with the unit. For video display, the Espresso uses the PCI-based IGS C2000 framebuffer, along with the same standard VGA port connector as Krups and Mr. Coffee. The on-board audio remains a Crystal CS4231 chip like Krups, and the network interface remains a Sun HappyMeal 10/100 Mbps interface like Krups as well. Espresso came with the 9-pin serial port and 1/8" audio out and 1/8" audio in jacks of Krups, and a new addition of a parallel port, and a second 9-pin serial port. Espresso also comes with the flash memory to load your OS on and bypass the network boot cycle. One new addition to the Espresso is a smart card slot. '' They also have a picture of the machine.

[Tags: dmesg, espresso, Hardware, sun]

Update: Kimihiro-san has sent me a link to an english language page describing the HDL-G400U, including FAQ and gallery. Yumm...

BTW for those asking "where to buy", see the "Global Link" section on the left, which has links to offices in America, Europe and others.

[Tags: Hardware, landisk]

Update: Jonathan Montgomery wrote me that a full description of the E20 is given in IBM's announcement letter for it (dated 10th Oct 1995).

[Tags: Hardware, prep]

Includes some fancy pictures.

[Tags: embedded, Hardware, images, soekris]

$550US doesn't sound too bad... anyone want to send me one? :)

[Tags: Hardware]

Anyone wanna make sure NetBSD runs on these machines? ;)

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Anyone got such a system for me (preferably including colocation)? I'd love to use it to compile binary pkgs for NetBSD (as we didn't get a blade cluster by HP ;)

[Tags: dmesg, Hardware]

Update #1: Silly me, I've read some subjects about Sun V40Z this week but couldn't remember or research them when I found and wrote the above. Thanks to Brett Lymn for pointing me at his mail with the complete dmesg of that machine.

Seeing that it takes eight 2GHz CPUs to chew for a full hour before spitting out a NetBSD release seems pretty tough though... Time to de-bloat this OS. :)

(In another mail, Greg Oster posted about a machine with four slightly faster CPUs, which apparently took about 35 minutes to build a release without X... am I the only one missing some things here?).

[Tags: dmesg, Hardware, sun]

While at harddisks/IO stuff, does anyone happen to know why NetBSD (g4u) doesn't work on Dell GX520 machines and just hangs? Send me mail if you have a clue!

[Tags: Hardware]

Which brings me right to the topic... I've stumbled across the GigaLANdisk, which is a network attached storage device that would be ideal for backup purposes. Of course that's nice and everything, but why do I write this here in my NetBSD blog? Well, guess what! Even as the device seems to run Linux natively (...), it also runs NetBSD, see the dmesg output. Status of the NetBSD/landisk port is available in Japanese (only, sorry -- no, i cannot read it either ;) here, and there's some patches etc. on NaoBSD.

Actually I found this whole thing after someone mentioned NaoBSD on some list the other day, and there's quite a funny selection of things. I hope they get integrated into NetBSD rather sooner than later...

[Tags: Hardware]

What other than OMFGLOLIWANTONE should I say?! Very cool to hear things like ``the board being able to survive 60 seconds at a time a half centimeter away from an 800 watt burner element. A regular PC can't even survive room temperature without heatsinks and fans, and the TS-7200 has neither.''.

More: website, PDF.

[Tags: Hardware, toaster]

``Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJI), one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced it has provided the SEIL Engine routing software to serve as the core of the mobile router software that is embedded in the new Micro Multi-Platform Mobile Router jointly developed by IIJ, ROOT, Inc., and Novatec Corporation.

SEIL Engine is the embedded software in the SEIL Series new-generation high-performance routers which were developed and are sold by IIJ. Through a licensing program, this software can now be used to provide the abundant features of the SEIL Series in a wide array of hardware. IIJ brings this technology to this joint development project to provide the embedded SEIL Engine software, consisting of a NetBSD foundation and IIJ's proprietary expansion models.''

Seems NetBSD is pretty much en-vogue in the router-business today. :)

[Tags: Hardware, Products]

Update: See the homepage for more information, in case the above links are dead, some upto-date tech-details and a message telling that Speecys uses NetBSD are also there.

[Tags: Hardware, robot]