XFree86 in 16 and 24bit

Michael Lorenz announced that the pnozz(4) frame buffer now supports 8, 16 and 24bit color with full acceleration. See his message to the port-sparc mailinglist for more details. [0 comments]

 

IBM RS/6000 7024 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7024 model E20 and E30 has been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

(ia64) Moved sources to CVS

Contact port maintainer or mailing list for more details. [0 comments]

 

hp700 boot-from-disk, installation tools

Booting from disk now works (via a work-around for the underlying memory corruption bug). Release builds now include a sysinst-based installation LIF image. [0 comments]

 

Xen 2.0 HowTo

A short Xen 2.0 Howto has been made available. [0 comments]

 

Xen 2.0 support

Manuel Bouyer has just merged the bouyer-xen2 branch into NetBSD -current; this means that support for Xen 2.0 (both in privileged and unprivileged mode) will be available in NetBSD 3.0. Support for Xen 1.2 has been removed. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/iyonix created

Gavan Fantom has imported the first port of NetBSD/iyonix. [0 comments]

 

Working driver for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2

Support for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on IP32 (O2) is committed. [0 comments]

 

wscons support for Indigo in-tree

wscons support with GR2 graphics controller and z8530 based keyboard/mouse on IP20/IP12 (i.e. Indigo machines) is now in-tree. [0 comments]

 

IBM RS/6000 40P 6015 support

Platform support was extended to the IBM RS/6000 40P 6015. [0 comments]

 

FFS/LFS native primary bootstrap loader

ITOH Yasufumi has committed a native primary bootstrap loader for FFS/LFS (xxboot). [0 comments]

 

hp700 current status update

See Jochen Kunz's post to the port-hp700@NetBSD.org mailing list. [0 comments]