Announcing pkgsrcCon 2015 in Berlin

The 10th pkgsrcCon is happening on the weekend of July 4th and 5th 2015 in Berlin. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend.

More details can be found on the pkgsrcCon 2015 website.

Call for presentations

Everyone is welcome to make a presentation. So please do! If you already have title or topic please send an email to wiedi@frubar.net.

I look forward to seeing you there!

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Hands on experience with EdgeRouter ERLite-3

My EdgeRouter ERLite-3 just has been delivered. Setup was easy (the NetBSD version of "plug & play"), and I really like this hardware.

Of course first testing showed up first errors - so this will be an interesting experience!

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AsiaBSDCon 2015

Trip report from AsiaBSDCon 2015[Read More] [3 comments]

 

NetBSD ported to Hardkernel ODROID-C1

NetBSD was recently ported to the Hardkernel ODROID-C1. The Hardkernel ODROID-C1 is a quad-core ARMv7 development board that features an Amlogic S805 SoC (quad-core Cortex-A5 @ 1.5GHz), 1GB RAM and gigabit ethernet for $35 USD.

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Raspberry PI 2 support added

Initial support is now available for the Raspberry PI 2.

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CI20 reaches userland

My CI20 now makes it to userland, with root and ethernet via USB.
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Regular test runs down to zero unexpected failures on multiple architectures

Latest test results on both the netbsd-7 branch (heading, hopefully soon, to the release of NetBSD 7.0) and -current, are down to zero unexpected failures for various architectures again.

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Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7

With the latest updates to NetBSD 7, the Raspberry Pi port now supports hardware acceleration using the built-in Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU. This enables 3D graphics acceleration and hardware accelerated video playback, a first for NetBSD/arm.

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The State of Accelerated Graphics on NetBSD/sparc, updated

This is an update to this post.
Some new drivers were added ( cgtwelve, mgx ), others got improvements ( SX acceleration, support for 8bit tcx ).[Read More] [2 comments]

 

So they sent me a CI20

When I found out that Ingenic is giving away some of their MIPS Creator CI20 boards I applied, and to my surprise they sent me one. Of course, the point was to make NetBSD work on it. I just finished the first step.
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NetBSD 5.1.5 and 5.2.3 available for download

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 5.1.5, the fifth security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.1 release branch, and NetBSD 5.2.3, the third security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.2 release branch. They represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, and if you are running a prior release of either branch, we strongly suggest that you update to one of these releases.

For more details, please see the NetBSD 5.1.5 release notes or NetBSD 5.2.3 release notes.

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.

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ARM multiprocessor support

NetBSD now supports multiple cores on various ARM SoCs.[Read More] [4 comments]