i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition. eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager. Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.
(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
ATA driver to the Alpha. Soren, back this out if you need to.)
This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.
The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.
Approved by: core
* Support for AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, 400
* Untested support for UDB, Multia, AXPpci33 (Noname)
* Support for Personal Workstation 433a/433au, 500a/500au, 600a/600au (Miata)
* Some minor fixes and improvements to interrupt handling.
Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> (AS200, Miata)
Obtained from: NetBSD (some code for AS200, Miata, Noname)
work in progress and has never booted a real machine. Initial
development and testing was done using SimOS (see
http://simos.stanford.edu for details). On the SimOS simulator, this
port successfully reaches single-user mode and has been tested with
loads as high as one copy of /bin/ls :-).
Obtained from: partly from NetBSD/alpha
