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NetBSD 0.9

How to recompile (under AmigaDOS)
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You need a fairly complete unix programming environment. You also need 
gcc, I don't think any of the commercial compilers could recompile the
kernel. The central configuration directory is sys/arch/amiga/conf. CD
there, and take a look at the file AMIGA. Things you might change in
this file are:

timezone:	change to your timezone.

options:	comment out modules you don't need, to make the kernel
		smaller. Good candidates for exclusion are probably
		the ISOFS (CD filesystem), ISO and TPIP (implement OSI
		sockets). PCFS is entirely untested, so you might 
		get rid of it as well.

config:		this is a vital line, it tells BSD where to find the
		root filesystem and the swap partition. The device
		name is composed of `sd', which is the disk driver,
		the unit number (6 in the distributed file), and the
		partition (A==root).

disk:		make sure there's an entry for your SCSI unit, the
		kernel as distributed supports drives at units 0, 1 and
		6.

tape:		if you don't have a tape drive, you can remove those
		entries, and save some space in the kernel.

pseudo-device:	you can safely remove `sl' and `bpfilter', please don't
		remove `ite', or you'll end up without a console...


When you're happy with the config file, you have to run it thru the
config program. config is included in the bin directory of this
distribution, together with the loader. In sys/arch/amiga/conf, do

  config AMIGA

After a moment, config reminds you to do a make depend, well, you can't,
there's no mkdep at the moment;-) Just make sure all object files of
previous runs are removed, then `make', and cross fingers. The make
process will need some binaries found in the bin directory of this
distribution, so add bin to your PATH before starting the compilation.

The distributed console bitmap font is *UGLY*. I'd strongly suggest
you CD to sys/arch/amiga/stand/dumpfont, and generate a new font source
file containing the topaz.font of AmigaOS. This looks *much* nicer
than the free Mach font, but since it is part of AmigaOS, it is 
owned by Commodore, and may not be redistributed, you'll have to regenerate
it, sorry.  Dumpfont will output a new source file to stdout.  Redirect
this output to a file, and then copy it to sys/arch/amiga/dev/kernel_font.c.
If you can't get dumpfont working on your system (or if you're 
crosscompiling from a non-amiga system), copy the ugly 
sys/arch/amiga/dev/kernel_font.c.distrib to sys/arch/amiga/dev/kernel_font.c 
instead.

If you run into problems recompiling, configuring, etc. first try to
find a solution yourself. I would prefer to work on BSD than to answer
tons of email, but if you're really stuck, you can reach me at [email protected].

-Markus Wild

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