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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!cs.vu.nl!fvkampen From: fvkampen@cs.vu.nl (Florentijn van Kampen) Subject: (newbie) FreeBSD on microchannel? Nntp-Posting-Host: flits.cs.vu.nl Keywords: microchannel Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:03:07 GMT Message-ID: <Dn6n57.4uq.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> Lines: 22 Hello, First of all I want to say that these are my first steps in the world of FreeBSD... So perhaps this is a FAQ... I saw in the documentation of FreeBSD 2.1 and the current that 'microchannel support was being worked at' and 'could be materializing any moment'. Is there any work being done? Is it hard to do it myself (compile it on a regular 486 with a few pathces to a binary on a PS/2 mca?) I know I would have to patch all the interrupt handlers, and there was something about ack-ing the clock interrupt? Any thoughts? Florentijn van Kampen -- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Florentijn van Kampen Department of | 'Freedom is the right to say: two plus Mathematics and | two equals four. If that is granted, Computer Science | everything else follows.' (Orwell 1984)