Project Outline

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).