Hardware scrolling for RiscPC/A7000/NC wscons

Reinoud Zandijk has committed code for hardware scrolling for the RiscPC and compatibles. This new code has been tested in different screen resolutions and depths, and its all worked ok so far. It even appears to run faster than the original vidcconsole code. More details are available in Reinoud's announcement in the port-arm32 mail archive. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/sparc using a pool cache for pmap allocation

Paul Kranenburg has updated NetBSD/sparc to use a pool cache for pmap allocation. The cached pmap structures include a ready-to-use level 1 page table (on sun4m) and MMU context. A simple `fork()' test shows an improvement in spent system time of around 4 percent. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/news68k switches to ELF

NetBSD/news68k is now using ELF as its native object file format in -current. An ELF snapshot is available in the NetBSD/news68k snapshot area of the ftp server. Also available are instructions for upgrading from this snapshot or from source. [0 comments]

 

Linux compatibility enabled for PowerPC ports

Emmanuel Dreyfus has integrated Linux binary compatibility for PowerPC ports. This means that NetBSD/prep should now be able to run LinuxPPC binaries such as Netscape Communicator. [0 comments]

 

Linux compatibility enabled for PowerPC ports

Emmanuel Dreyfus has integrated Linux binary compatibility for PowerPC ports. This means that NetBSD/bebox should now be able to run LinuxPPC binaries such as Netscape Communicator. [0 comments]

 

Physical memory handling changes

Paul Kranenburg has updated the code that manages physical memory in NetBSD/sparc (see the NetBSD-current versions of pmap.c, machdep.c, and autoconf.c), resulting in these "user visible" changes:

The kernels message buffer size is now 8192 (was 4096) on all platforms under NetBSD/sparc. sun4 users: The full first page is now used, since there should be sufficient sanity checking in the message buffer initialization code to detect possible corruption by boot programs. Testing on a sun 4/490 showed no problems.

sun4m PROMs may allow you to not have a memory bank starting at physical address 0. The NetBSD bootstrap code now also deals with this, so you can plug your memory modules into any slot supported by the machine's PROM.

If you encounter any problems, please drop Paul a note.

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New Developer (Jukka Andberg)

Jukka Andberg has joined the NetBSD team; his task will be to further enhance his initial WSCONS support, which was integrated recently. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/sun3 switches to ELF

February 22, 2001 posted by Blog Import

NetBSD/sun3 is now using ELF as its native object file format in -current. An ELF snapshot is available in the NetBSD/sun3 snapshot area of the ftp server. Also available are instructions for upgrading from this snapshot or from source. [0 comments]

 

Simon Burge is now the NetBSD/pmax co-port-maintainer

February 14, 2001 posted by Blog Import

Please welcome Simon Burge to the NetBSD/pmax co-port-maintainer position. Simon has been a long-term contributor to the pmax port (and NetBSD in general), and has effectively performed many of the pmax port-maintainer tasks, including building the past few NetBSD/pmax releases. Simon joins Jonathon Stone as co-port-maintainer of the pmax port. [0 comments]

 

Some recent changes to NetBSD/bebox

February 12, 2001 posted by Blog Import

Allen Briggs has added the ex driver (3Com 3c90x[BC]) to NetBSD/bebox, and used it for an NFS-based boot. This requires configuring the PCI bus at boot time, which requires the PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE option to exist in your kernel configuration file. Also, in addition to the tested 3Com card, all PCI devices supported under NetBSD/macppc should now work. Please tell the folks at the port-bebox if you have any problems. SCSI support is under development. [0 comments]

 

more ISDN drivers (amiga)

February 08, 2001 posted by Blog Import

The Zorro bus driver support for the recently integrated isdn4bsd package has been enhanced to support also the BSC ISDN Master II, the Zeus ISDN Link and the Individual Computers ISDN Surfer. More information is available in Ignatios' announcement in the port-amiga mail archive (slightly corrected here). [0 comments]

 

New compat14 package available

February 04, 2001 posted by Blog Import

Matthew Green has added a compat14 package to pkgsrc. This package contains NetBSD 1.4.3 shared libraries, and can add compatibility for dynamically linked executables compiled under NetBSD/sparc 1.4 (a.out) to a NetBSD/sparc 1.5 (elf) machine. [0 comments]

 

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