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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:20:10 -0500
From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca>
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Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:17:20 -0500
>  "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
>  > port using netbsd as host but as the hw is not yet ready we are using an
>  > ebsa285 board to do the prototyping and I was told that netBSD doesn't
>  > support it natively (though I could be mistaken).
> 
> NetBSD-current does indeed run on the EBSA285.

I was told that it wouldn't work natively because of the lack of
BIOS/RTC. Maybe they use the Angel PBL to load the image even if there's
no BIOS. I'll check it out later on tonight.

Thanks for the tip...

Stephane E. Potvin
Galea Network Security.

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