New snapshot available (acorn26)

A new snapshot based on 2000-10-05 -current sources is now available in the NetBSD/arm26 snapshot area of the ftp server. [0 comments]

 

Support for tulip based NWB-5852A

Atsushi Onoe has added support for the tulip based 100BaseTX card NWB-5852A, which is an APbus board with DEC-21140A chip. It supports 100BaseTX only. Half duplex/Full duplex can be specified manually, but there is no auto negotiation functionality. [0 comments]

 

Booting off RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors

Simon Burge has added support for booting off RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors to NetBSD/pmax -current. This support has been pulled into the netbsd-1-5 branch, so it will be available in NetBSD 1.5. [0 comments]

 

MVME162-LX 200/300 Support Added

Preliminary support for the LX 200/300 variants of MVME162 has been added to NetBSD/mvme68k. Boards with less only 4MB of memory will need extra RAM in the form of a VMEbus memory board. Boards with less than 4MB of RAM are not supported. [0 comments]

 

Support for MI VMEbus Drivers Extended!

The MI VMEbus driver support added earlier this year has been extended to encompass VMEbus slave mode. This means that not only can MVME147 and MVME167 boards access slave boards over the VMEbus, but other VMEbus master boards can access memory reserved for this purpose on the MVME147 and MVME167. This is especially useful for VMEbus boards which can perform DMA transfers directly into host memory. Work is still ongoing to fully complete this feature, but it is functional enough to be useful right now. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/mipsco imported

Initial commit of NetBSD/mipsco code. [0 comments]

 

prep snapshot now available

Userland and kernel snapshot, based on 2000/08/02 sources, is now available in the NetBSD/prep snapshot area of the ftp server. [0 comments]

 

Ether3 driver

The ea driver for SEEQ 8005-based Ethernet cards (usually known as Ether3s) is now minimally usable. [0 comments]

 

FOURMEG kernel

The 20000714 snapshot now includes an additional kernel configuration, FOURMEG, which I hope will be small enough to boot on systems with 4Mb of RAM. [0 comments]

 

arm26 cross compiler in pkgsrc

The NetBSD package system now contains a set of cross-build tools for NetBSD/arm26 in the cross/armv2-netbsd package. [0 comments]

 

Progress on Dreamcast port

The port of the NetBSD operating system to Sega's Dreamcast game console is reaching a state where it's near to single user mode. Utilizing the NetBSD/evbsh3 port's simple structure and the fact that it supports both big and little endian architectures as well as the general clean design of the NetBSD operating system helped for this port. Device drivers for the game pad, keyboard etc. are next on the todo-list of Saitoh Masanobu, who works on this port. [0 comments]

 

Support for dynamically linked VAX ELF programs

Matt Thomas has committed changes so that ld.elf_so can now load and run dynamically linked VAX ELF programs. [0 comments]