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Announcing NetBSD Hackathon - February 10th to 12th, 2012
The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
Everybody that has an interest in NetBSD, from developers, documentation writers, translators, to advanced users are invited to attend. To make sure that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of the new release we would like to fix as many bugs as possible. For a list of bugs and more information look at the Wiki Page please.
If you are able to help us fixing these bugs by supplying patches or testing fixes please consider to participate. We are also in need of people to supply documentation fixes, preferably in the form of patches. Release notes and/or manual pages!
Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net). Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to be done.
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Meet us at FOSDEM 2012
This weekend (Feb. 4 - 5) FOSDEM, The Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting will be held at the university of Brussels and NetBSD will be present with a booth and there will be NetBSD related talks and presentations in the BSD devroom on sunday.
SL-C7x0/860 support
PXA25x based Zaurus SL-C700/750/760/860 support, ported by TOYOKURA Atsushi, has been committed. [0 comments]
G-REX busboards support
The p5pb(4) driver now includes experimental support for DCE Computer G-REX 1200 and G-REX 4000 PCI bridges. [0 comments]
zboot improvement
zboot loader now can load a NetBSD kernel from Linux local file system. [0 comments]
Another NAS family supported
Netronix NH-230/231 and compatible NAS systems (e.g. Allnet 6250/6260) are completely supported now. [0 comments]
XM6i ver 0.33
XM6i version 0.33 has been released. Improved scheduler, rendering, and MPU performance. [0 comments]
New NAS supported
The Iomega StorCenter G2 is supported. [0 comments]
Running NetBSD on the LG-N2R1D NAS-family
Article about installing NetBSD on a small nas device LG NAS-N2R1D. This requires some soldering and other black magic but otherwise pretty good example of NetBSD portability.
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XM6i ver 0.32
XM6i version 0.32, including NetBSD/i386 5.1, Windows, and Mac OS X 10.6 binaries, has been released. NE2000 emulation has been added to NetBSD/i386 binary. [0 comments]
Plan and funding of SMP Networking projects
On September 13th, 2011, the Board of Directors posted a news item requesting project specifications to get rid of the big kernel lock surrounding the networking code. Unfortunately, nobody has taken advantage of the offer and, therefore, the Board has not received any applications to this date.
In order to lower the entry barrier, the Board has prepared a set of smaller project proposals that, in aggregate, help in achieving the goal of making the networking stack suitable for SMP systems. Please note that these projects cover a very wide range of topics: there are projects whose only purpose is to add new data structures to the kernel, while others involve refactoring parts of the existing code to make adding locking easier.
The list of projects for funding and the tentative plan can be found in the new SMP Networking project page.
All of the individual projects that can help in achieving the goal of SMP Networking are suitable for funding. If you are interested in applying for any of them, please contact board@ and core@ directly. The project application how-to may be of help.
Thank you.
Julio Merino,
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Preliminary PROM function based framebuffer text console support
After ~12 years since initial import, finally I've comitted working framebuffer console support using PROM functions. It was demonstrated on NetBSD booth at Open Source Conference Kansai @ Kyoto back in July, with the resurrected OMRON LUNA. See an announcement on port-news68k mailing list for details. [0 comments]