Sevan Janiyan

The NetBSD operating systems focus on portability means that over the years since its inception it has ammassed support for a large body of platforms across many CPU architectures with continued support to this day.

The NetBSD operating systems focus on portability means that over the years since its inception it has ammassed support for a large body of platforms across many CPU architectures with continued support to this day.

Through this effort to provide extensive support many features & sub projects have developed to acomodate supported hardware. Everything from a Sun2 workstation to a Sega Dreamcast to an Amiga and many others. This talk will cover the details of these features which ease supporting such systems.

No system newer than 10 years old will be covered!

• Introduction to NetBSD and the benefits of extensive support
• Bootloaders
• Use of Emulation
• Automated testing on Amiga, Sega Dreamcast and beyond with Anita
• Cross compilation support
• Complimentary hardware projects: USB interface for your Turbo Channel VAX and more
• Cutest of devices
• Revival of once deemed dead ISA

NetBSD has had support for cross compilation for some time now. This talk covers the features and changes in NetBSD enabling a new comer to set out from obtaining a copy of the NetBSD source code and pkgsrc to building an OS & Firmware for an ARM board from scratch on an operating system of their choice.

NetBSD has had support for cross compilation for some time now. This talk covers the features and changes in NetBSD enabling a new comer to set out from obtaining a copy of the NetBSD source code and pkgsrc to building an OS & Firmware for an ARM board from scratch on an operating system of their choice. This was leveraged as the basis for a series of workshops aimed at introducing the NetBSD operating systems to hardware ethusiasts.

The workshops covered: Introducing project rescources (source repo & documentation) Cross compilation with ease The Lua subsystem - a highlevel language interface to the system Working locally using simulation Rapid prototyping with rump Tamper resistence with veriexec