NetBSD Ported To SuperH 64-bit SH-5 Processor

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 15, 2002 @02:52PM 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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Re:In other news... by Piquan · 2002-10-15 17:00 · 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.