NetBSD/ia64 Frequently Asked Questions

General problems and questions

General problems and questions

Where to start? (top)

As of this writing, the process to get started with NetBSD/ia64 is to first install HP's "SKI" emulator, then download or compile a bootloader and kernel, then start SKI with that:

  1. The SKI ia64 emulator can be found in pkgsrc/emulators/ski, more documentation is available.

  2. Get the modified sources -- they are currently not merged with the main NetBSD source tree.

  3. Information on building the bootloader and kernel came into a mail that never made it to the mailing list archive, so here is a copy: 

    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:23:27 +0530
From: Cherry G. Mathew <cherry@mahiti.org>
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
Cc: port-ia64@NetBSD.org, sunil@mahiti.org
Subject: Re: Announce DDB:

[...]

Since things are pretty much in dev, yes, you need to build both the
bootloader and the kernel.

You need to build the bootloader first:

cd arch/ia64/stand/ia64/ski
$TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-ia64
will give you a binary called 'skiload' which is the bootloader.

Then you need to build the kernel.

Its the usual: 

build.sh -mia64 tools
build.sh -mia64 kernel=GENERIC.SKI

[...]

  4. Information about starting the emulator and booting NetBSD in it is in this mail

  5. More information is available in porting project's Wiki.

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