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Porting BSD will probably involve the following steps. You will
- look through the NetBSD ports and find the one that's
closest to the machine you are porting to (section 2.1);
- write a stand-alone kernel to test device drivers and loaders (section
2.3);
- either modify or rewrite the assembly language portion (section
3.1);
- finish the basic device drivers and machine-dependent code (section
4); and
- incorporate your changes back into NetBSD (section 5.6).
Eventually you may want to release your port to the public, which will
involve making a binary distribution and a set of installation tools,
as well as having a mailing list, a FAQ, and a lot of patience
(section 5).
Lawrence Kesteloot
Fri Jan 20 16:29:52 EST 1995