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dir: purgatorio/os/ipengine/README
The ipEngine-1 is a Motorola MPC8xx-based small computer made by Bright Star Engineering (www.brightstareng.com) which also provides Linux and their own operating system for it. It is an interesting hardware platform to do network-oriented Inferno applications. The ipEngine is unusual in including an FPGA (Altera Flex 6016). See fpga(3) and fpgaload(8). We are also working on software to help program the thing. Booting the ipEngine 0. serial cable (port 1, 9600 baud), ether, power etc. 1. make appropriate entries for your site in flash using the BSE monitor: set netmask 255.255.255.0 set nameserver 200.1.1.11 set server 200.1.1.11 set serverip 200.1.1.11 set gateway 200.1.1.50 set hostname stella set domain vitanuova.com set myip 200.1.1.96 2. add an entry to do the boot by tftp: set bootcmd "load /usr/inferno/os/ipengine/iipe 3000; go 3020" contrary to the BSE documentation this loads any binary file at the given address. the -b option doesn't seem to be needed. 3. reset it should load and start the kernel Vita Nuova 16 July 2003