Notes on Supported Boards
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These are the Motorola Single Board Computers that NetBSD/mvmeppc
supports.
These are the other supported VMEbus boards that NetBSD/mvmeppc
supports.
CPU-specific support for the MVME160x family of Single Board Computers
was based on the existing PReP port.
Supported Hardware
The MVME160x is based around an PPC603 or PPC604 cpu at up to 200MHz
and up to 256MB of RAM. It has an onboard PCI and ISA bus together
with a bridge to the VMEbus via the VMEChip2 found in later MVME68K
boards. There are numerous variants in the family, with some having
onboard VGA compatible graphics and keyboard/mouse interfaces. All
boards have at least two ns16550-compatible serial ports, 10MBit/S
ethernet and either fast or wide SCSI. The I/O pinout on VMEbus P2
is compatible with the MVME712 industry standard.
NetBSD/mvmeppc runs on Motorola MVME160x board with as little
as 8MB of RAM, though 16MB or more is recommended.
The following on-board MVME160x hardware is supported:
- Battery-backed real-time clock
- Network interfaces
- DEC 21040 Ethernet using the tlp(4) driver. Note that there
is currently a problem which prevents the AUI port on MVME712
from working. Until a fix is found, use the front-panel RJ45.
Boards with the AM79C970 Ethernet chip are not yet supported
due to lack of hardware to test with.
- Parallel port
- on-board Centronics style printer port
- SCSI (most disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, etc)
- on-board Symbios Logic 53c810 SCSI bus interface chip
- Serial ports (RS232)
- on-board ns16550-compatible serial controllers
- built-in console and tty01, with speeds up to 115200 baud
No other on-board hardware is supported at this time.
These transition boards are compatible with almost all the MVME68K and
MVMEPPC family of single board computers.
- MVME712A
- MVME712B
- MVME712-012
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- MVME712AM
- MVME712M
- MVME712-013
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These are some general comments that apply to NetBSD/mvmeppc.
- Application code for any powerpc-based NetBSD platform will
run on all the mvmeppc single-board computers without change.
- If necessary, a single kernel image can be built which
will boot on all the MVME models (as support for other boards
is added).
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