NetBSD Ported to Motorola Sandpoint

howardjp writes: "NetBSD has been ported to the Motorla Sandpoint, a reference PPC design board. Wasabi Systems did the port. I will not be happy until NetBSD runs on my Atari 1200XL."

Reference Platform

[The Finn]

This is a reference platform, which is almost like open-source hardware. Motorola provides schematics, board artwork, VHDL code, bill-of-materials, everything so you can use the design in your own products.

and of course since all the hardware is open and documented, support should be good.

Re:Wow, you can put an MPC7400 on this

[braque]

>80 column hard wrapped e-mail is not a sign of intelligent
>life

HTML email is?

Where to buy?

[PapaZit]

Does anyone sell systems based on the Sandpoint design? While an open platform is really cool, I don't want to assemble one myself.

Presumably, someone has produced a production board that's closely related to this reference design.

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thrilling.

[TheReverand]

[insert joke about porting to abacus here].

Wow, you can put an MPC7400 on this

[anarkhos]

But how expensive is one?
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Re:Wow, you can put an MPC7400 on this

[anarkhos]

You don't need to use HTML, geez
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Re:Wow, you can put an MPC7400 on this

[guroove]

All three versions are priced at a suggested list price of $2,415 each. You can read about it here [macworld.com].

Sandpoint

[statusbar]

This is quite awesome.

I am currently using Linux in an embedded system based roughly on the sandpoint 8240... and it was a fair bit of a mess as sandpoint is not an 'official linux port'... I will definitely look into NetBSD/Sandpoint instead.

--jeff