arm port Xscale optimizations

Steve Woodford announced that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. Please see his message to the port-arm Mailing List for details. [0 comments]

 

netwinder arm port Xscale optimizations

Steve Woodford announced that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. Please see his message to the port-arm Mailing List for details. [0 comments]

 

O2 support now functional again

O2 (IP32) support is now functional again by fixes contributed by Christopher SEKIYA. Support for R10000 based O2 is also added. [0 comments]

 

Experimental ABLE firmware support on cats

Chris Gilbert has added experimental ABLE firmware support on cats, please see his mail to port-cats for more information. [0 comments]

 

Support for AICA sound system

Ryo Shimizu has contributed a device driver for the AICA sound system that is capable of playing 2 channel sound. [0 comments]

 

Switched to MI SCSI

NetBSD/hp300 has switched to use the machine independent SCSI layer at last so that all SCSI devices supported by MI SCSI drivers (including SCSI tape devices) are fully functional like other ports. [0 comments]

 

sun4c longstanding MMU bug fixed

A very old bug in sun4c MMU functions has been fixed. This impacts stability on all sun4c CPUs and removes the need for very slow software caching on SPARCstation 1, 1+ and IPC models. The fix will be in the next release of NetBSD. See the post by Paul Kranenburg about this issue for more information. [0 comments]

 

HP Jornada Palmtop NetBSD article published

O'Reilly ONLamp has published an article by Michael Lucas, Palmtop NetBSD, covering the installation of NetBSD on a HP Jornada 728. It may also be of interest to hpcsh users. [0 comments]

 

New -current snapshot available (amd64)

The most recent snapshot, based on 2003-05-10 sources is now available as a bootable ISO install image, located at the NetBSD/amd64 snapshot area of the ftp server. This snapshot has some important improvements in it. For details, look at the README file. [0 comments]

 

amd64 completely crossbuildable

Frank van der Linden announced that the NetBSD/amd64 Port is now completely crossbuildable. Please see his message to the port-amd64 Mailing List for details. [0 comments]

 

mailing list renamed (x86_64)

The mailing list, port-x86_64, has been renamed to port-amd64. Users who were subscribed to the old list do not need to resubscribe. [0 comments]

 

(hp300) APCI com fixed

Some fixes for apci serial, which switched to MI com(4) driver, are committed so that now it's actually functional. [0 comments]