NetBSD/sh3 Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some frequently asked questions (and frequently given answers!) about NetBSD/sh3.

NetBSD Questions

Hardware Questions

Readings

Other sources of information


NetBSD Questions


How can I start cross-builds? (top)

See Cross-building NetBSD for cross build in general.

sh-netbsdcoff (for big endian) and shel-netbsdcoff (for little endian) should be good starting points. Build script is provided in sys/arch/sh3/conf/build-sh3.el and sys/arch/sh3/conf/build-sh3.eb. At least you need to update MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH settings.


Hardware Questions


Are there evaluation cards available outside of Japan/with non-Japanese documents? (top)

We have listed couple of eval cards we know of, if you have any additions, please submit those to the port-sh3 mailing list. Unfortunately we have information for Japanese evaluation cards only.

If you are outside of Japan, the best place you could contact is your local Hitachi office (like Hitachi US, Hitachi UK, whatever). They should have evaluation boards to sell to customers (since they would like to sell the SH3/4 chips), possibly with localized documents.

Among Japanese products, mmEye and Dreamcast are available outside of Japan.


Readings


Suggested readings? (top)

"Monthly Interface", CQ publishing, April 2000 issue (in Japanese) (webpage)
Includes RT-Linux, Linux/sh3, NetBSD/sh3 and porting how-to.
"UNIX OS for embedded engineers", CQ publishing, July 2000 (in Japanese) (webpage)
Includes RT-Linux, Linux/sh3, NetBSD/sh3 and porting how-to.
"implementation of embeded system on SEIL T1", BSD Magazine No.6, Dec. 2000 (in Japanese) (webpage)
Covers Brains mmEye and IIJ SEIL-T1 porting efforts.

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