X.org on NetBSD/sgimips

X.org support for NetBSD/sgimips has gone live with the addition of hardware accelerated drivers for Newport ( found in most Indys, ported from official X.org ) and CRIME ( found in all O2s, driver written by myself ). Both drivers support the usual XAA acceleration primitives including solid fills, screen-to-screen copies, colour expansion and compositing.

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NetBSD 5.0 release engineering news

Some news from the 5.0 release engineering team - we're currently in the final stages of the release process for what will be NetBSD 5.0. Binaries are available for Release Candidate 2, and we'd appreciate feedback from everyone on those binaries.

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Heads up: x86 framebuffer console changes

The i386-specific vesafb(4) framebuffer driver has been superseded by the generic genfb(4) driver. Due to this change, framebuffer console support is now available on amd64 as well as i386.

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IP6 and IP10 support in-tree

Support for Personal IRIS 4D20 (IP6) and 4D/25 (IP10) has been added to -current. [0 comments]

 

IBM 7044-270 Support added

NetBSD/ofppc has been ported to the IBM 7044-270 (POWER3-II cpu). The machine has a 64bit POWER3-II CPU, which is what the modern POWER4 and POWER5 chips were based on. Currently, NetBSD only runs on this machine in 32bit mode. See the complete details in the official announcement. [0 comments]

 

New ofppc portmaster

Tim Rightnour has taken over the role of portmaster for NetBSD/ofppc. More details are available in the official announcement. [0 comments]

 

Initial import of NetBSD/rs6000

NetBSD/rs6000, a new powerpc port for the early MCA-based IBM RS/6000 workstations, has been imported. More details (including kernel dmesg) are available in Tim Rightnour's annoucement. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/xen Howto updated

The NetBSD/xen Howto has been updated with some details about Xen on amd64. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD runs on Xen/amd64

NetBSD current now includes amd64 kernels that will run on top of the x86_64 Xen hypervisor. NetBSD/amd64 can run as both domain 0 and domU, and supports the same features as i386 (including HVM support if the hardware supports it), and in addition can run 32bit guests which uses the PAE extensions. [0 comments]

 

Rebirth of NetBSD/ofppc

NetBSD/ofppc has been rewritten from the ground up, and is now once again a viable, and supported port of NetBSD. The port now boots into single user mode on a bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. More information, as well as dmesg of the first boot, are available in the announcement to port-ofppc. [0 comments]

 

Driver for Buddha and Catweasel/Z2

The Buddha and Catweasel/Z2 IDE controllers from Individual Computers are supported by wdc(4). [0 comments]

 

Motorola MTX604 Support

Support for the Motorola MTX604 and Raven host bridge based machines has been added to the prep port. [0 comments]