acorn26 now uses standard ARM bus space implementation

Ben Harris committed a change to move over to using the standard ARM bus_space implementation on acorn26. This is more flexible than the old acorn26 bus_space, which means that single read/write operations are slower, but multi and region operations have the potential to be faster, and particularly insane podules might be supportable. [0 comments]

 

new driver sec(4) for the Acorn SCSI Expansion Card

Ben Harris committed a new driver sec(4) for the Acorn SCSI Expansion. Unlike asc(4), this driver uses the board's DMA system, uses the machine-independent WD33C93 driver, works on NetBSD/acorn26, and doesn't share a name with six other machine-dependent SCSI drivers. Not tested on acorn32, but it seems to work tolerably well on an A540. [0 comments]

 

IBM 7025-F40 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7025 model F40 has been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/landisk port imported

NetBSD was ported to LANDISK by NONAKA Kimihiro. NetBSD 4.0 will be the first release to include LANDISK support. [0 comments]

 

New xen port maintainer

After Manuel Bouyer had already taken over most of the tasks of a port maintainer, due to Christian Limpach's lack of time, he is now the official maintainer of NetBSD/xen. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD as Domain0 for Xen3

Manuel Bouyer announced in a message to the port-xen mailing list that NetBSD is finally usable as a Domain0 with version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD running on JavaStation Espresso

Julian Coleman reported that together with Valeriy E. Ushakov he was able to make NetBSD boot in single-user mode on a JavaStation Espresso. [0 comments]

 

binary packages for m68k available

About 1000 packages built from the latest branch pkgsrc-2006Q1 by Greg Oster are now available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/packages-2006Q1/NetBSD-3.0/m68k. The packages can be used on all ports based on m68k.
For some more details, see Greg Oster's announcement [0 comments]

 

IBM 7025-F30 and Motorola Powerstack E1 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7025 model F30 and the Motorola Powerstack E1 have been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

Xen-3 support pulled up to netbsd-3

Manuel Bouyer pulled the Xen-3 domU support to the netbsd-3 branch. For dom0 support, you'll have to run -current or wait for NetBSD 4.0. [0 comments]

 

New Restore CD build script

Dennis Chernoivanov has announced the availability of a new Restore CD build script, now available for testing and critique at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cdi/cobalt/restorecd.tar.gz. A NetBSD 3.99.17 restore CD built using these tools is available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cdi/cobalt/NetBSD3.99.17-restoreCD.iso. See his email to the port-cobalt mailing list for further details. [0 comments]

 

Xen3 domU is now functional

Manuel Bouyer has continued his work on getting NetBSD to work on Version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor over the past few weeks and NetBSD should now be functional on Xen3 [unprivileged domains] with block and network devices. [0 comments]