Support for AICA sound system

Ryo Shimizu has contributed a device driver for the AICA sound system that is capable of playing 2 channel sound. [0 comments]

 

Switched to MI SCSI

NetBSD/hp300 has switched to use the machine independent SCSI layer at last so that all SCSI devices supported by MI SCSI drivers (including SCSI tape devices) are fully functional like other ports. [0 comments]

 

sun4c longstanding MMU bug fixed

A very old bug in sun4c MMU functions has been fixed. This impacts stability on all sun4c CPUs and removes the need for very slow software caching on SPARCstation 1, 1+ and IPC models. The fix will be in the next release of NetBSD. See the post by Paul Kranenburg about this issue for more information. [0 comments]

 

HP Jornada Palmtop NetBSD article published

O'Reilly ONLamp has published an article by Michael Lucas, Palmtop NetBSD, covering the installation of NetBSD on a HP Jornada 728. It may also be of interest to hpcsh users. [0 comments]

 

New -current snapshot available (amd64)

The most recent snapshot, based on 2003-05-10 sources is now available as a bootable ISO install image, located at the NetBSD/amd64 snapshot area of the ftp server. This snapshot has some important improvements in it. For details, look at the README file. [0 comments]

 

amd64 completely crossbuildable

Frank van der Linden announced that the NetBSD/amd64 Port is now completely crossbuildable. Please see his message to the port-amd64 Mailing List for details. [0 comments]

 

mailing list renamed (x86_64)

The mailing list, port-x86_64, has been renamed to port-amd64. Users who were subscribed to the old list do not need to resubscribe. [0 comments]

 

(hp300) APCI com fixed

Some fixes for apci serial, which switched to MI com(4) driver, are committed so that now it's actually functional. [0 comments]

 

SMP enabled in -current (sparc)

SMP support on sparc has been enabled in -current and has been relatively stable on a SPARCstation 20/712, sun4/690 and other systems. See the FAQ and Matthew Green's message to the port-sparc mailing list. [0 comments]

 

FAQ updated (acorn32)

The FAQ has been updated and been actualised. Added is the question how to boot an NC into NetBSD using the new boot32 bootloader. [0 comments]

 

Bootloader v3.01 has been released for testing

The acorn32 portmaster Reinoud Zandijk has released version 3.01 of the bootloader. This new bootloader is a complete rewrite and comes as a NetBSD compilable single RISC OS relocatable module and is capable of booting all supported machines including NC's. It's still in development but ought to work fine for all users. You can download the latest released version of the module boot32 and give it a try. Please report problems to the mailing list or to the portmaster. [0 comments]

 

Support for the SEGA LAN Adapter

Support for the SEGA LAN Adapter is added, based on patch in port-dreamcast/17493 from Christian Groessler. [0 comments]