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1#	@(#)README	5.3 (Berkeley) 07/29/92
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5This Sony RISC workstation support is done as a sub-project in WIDE research
6project.  Sony Corp. contributed device drivers and gave us great
7technical supports.  Kazumasa Utashiro worked mainly for 4.4-alpha porting
8but that work was based on 4.3-Reno port helped by other project members,
9Tadamichi Matsuyama and Hidetoshi Unno.
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11This version is just a snapshot of developing system and has many
12unimplemented feature and bugs.  I hope this will be more stable in
13final 4.4BSD release.  Please contact utashiro@sra.co.jp if you have any
14comment about this code.  Bugfix will be greatly appreciated.
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17I've been using NWS-3200 laptop machine for development.  Only 3200's LCD
18display is supported now.  You can use this kernel on 3400 by serial line
19console, but it is not tested well.
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21Config command is not changed to support NEWS because it will be changed
22to support dual processor machine in the future.  Diffs are in CONFIG.DIFF
23in /sys/news3400 directory.
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25GCC 2.x has a problem to build library objects.  Usually library object is
26made by following way:
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28	cc -c x.c
29	ld -r -x x.o
30	mv a.out x.o
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32But using gcc 2.x (at least 2.2.2), some objects made by this way can't be
33linked.  ld complains that the object has bad isym.
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35Known bugs:
36	- Floating point doesn't work always.
37	- Display driver is slow.
38	- Serial line driver is slow.
39	- Reboot doesn't work.
40	- NFS doesn't work (it worked before...)
41	- System hangs when ^S is typed from bitmap console.
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44			Kazumasa Utashiro <utashiro@sra.co.jp>
45			Software Research Associates, Inc.
46			1-1-1 Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan
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