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New NetBSD Port, NetBSD/Iyonix

Posted by michael on from the is-there-anything-it-can't-do? dept.

agent dero writes "Gavan Fantom of NetBSD, has imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree, the new NetBSD/iyonix port. The IYONIX pc is an ARM-based desktop machine. It offers virtually silent operation, low heat, and all the other odds and ends offered by a modern PC. NetBSD is one port closer to a NetBSD/toaster port."

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  1. Re:netapp by Guy+Harris · · Score: 2, Informative
    Machines called 'toasters' (by the faithful) already based upon NetBSD

    ...if by "based on NetBSD" you mean "including, in the low-level support code for Alpha-based machines, some code from NetBSD".

    Data ONTAP is NOT "based on NetBSD" in the sense of being a modified version of NetBSD, or even of having a kernel that's a derivative of NetBSD. (Note that there aren't any Alpha-based machines currently being made by NetApp, so none of the current toasters are NetBSD-based.) There is a significant chunk of BSD-based code in ONTAP, mainly the networking stack and networking commands (the latter being modified to run in the kernel, without demand paging, and with all processes running in the same address space), but that's mainly 4.4BSD-based, with some FreeBSD stuff.

    (Yes, I do speak with authority on this matter, having been, among other things, one of the people who worked on the initial Alpha port of ONTAP.)

  2. Learn to code! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Do it. Your community needs good coders - badly. :-D
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