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NetBSD Ported To SuperH 64-bit SH-5 Processor

Posted by timothy on from the and-to-your-manual-transmission dept.

djcdplaya writes "Carrying on the tradition of NetBSD's ability to run on pretty much anything short of a toaster, Wasabi Systems has ported NetBSD to the SuperH 64-bit SH-5 processor. Here's a cut and paste job: 'NetBSD is the first commercially available operating system to run on the SH-5 platform. "We're very impressed with the speed of Wasabi's porting efforts," said Jon Frosdick, Director of Software Engineering at SuperH, Inc. Ideally suited for system-on-chip (SOC) designs and embedded applications, the SH-5 provides a feature-rich platform for designers developing set-top boxes, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), game consoles, networking and telephony applications, multimedia appliances and car infotainment systems.'"

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  1. In other news... by Perdo · · Score: 1, Informative

    Linux SH-5

    SH-5 benchmarks

    Company website

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    If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.

    1. Re:In other news... by Piquan · · Score: 5, Informative

      The link you entitled "Linux SH-5" discusses the GNUPro toolkit, which is pretty much the GNU toolchain (gcc, gas, ld, etc) and is unrelated to the Linux kernel. It doesn't announce that an OS is available.

    2. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Linux has already been ported to the SH-5; the sources are in bitkeeper.

      While the Linux codebase runs in 32-bit mode only, NetBSD suports both 32- and 64-bit modes.

  2. Re:uhhhh by jasonditz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, the SH2 - SH4 were all 32 bit the SH2 was in the Sega Saturn (actually two of them) the SH3 was in a lot of early Windows CE based HPCs I'm still eager to know what the SH5 has found its way into.

  3. Go NetBSD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    IMHO, NetBSD is one of the most amazing OSes in existence, purely for the sheer number of supported platforms -- and that they all compile FROM THE SAME SOURCE TREE. No messing around with patches, different config and userland tools; NetBSD 1.6 is the same on your ancient little Atari Falcon right through to a Pentium IV wonderbox.

    Contrast this with Linux, where separate archs are typically maintained as different kernel trees and it's not cohesive. I love Linux, but Debian is the only thing close to NetBSD in regards to complete uniformity across different platforms.

    Anyone looking to run a solid, flexible and well-supported free UNIX flavour on their old Mac/PC/68k/foo, check it out. It may not replace a Windows/Linux/FreeBSD desktop workstation, but it's superb for getting life out of those old machines.

    Oh, be careful with the Sushi tool in 1.6. Lot of glitches in it -- hopefully they'll be cleared up for 1.6.1.