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NetBSD Ported to Motorola Sandpoint

Posted by michael on from the can't-you-people-ever-be-happy dept.

howardjp writes: "NetBSD has been ported to the Motorla Sandpoint, a reference PPC design board. Wasabi Systems did the port. I will not be happy until NetBSD runs on my Atari 1200XL."

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  1. Reference Platform by The+Finn · · Score: 2

    This is a reference platform, which is almost like open-source hardware. Motorola provides schematics, board artwork, VHDL code, bill-of-materials, everything so you can use the design in your own products.

    and of course since all the hardware is open and documented, support should be good.

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  2. Where to buy? by PapaZit · · Score: 2

    Does anyone sell systems based on the Sandpoint design? While an open platform is really cool, I don't want to assemble one myself.

    Presumably, someone has produced a production board that's closely related to this reference design.

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  3. thrilling. by TheReverand · · Score: 3

    [insert joke about porting to abacus here].

  4. Sandpoint by statusbar · · Score: 2

    This is quite awesome.

    I am currently using Linux in an embedded system based roughly on the sandpoint 8240... and it was a fair bit of a mess as sandpoint is not an 'official linux port'... I will definitely look into NetBSD/Sandpoint instead.

    --jeff

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