New Maple bus drivers

ITOH Yasufumi has rewritten Maple bus driver and has added support for memory card and monochrome LCD on the Maple bus. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD 1.6 fix for IBM z50

NetBSD 1.6 kernel for IBM z50 released. 1.6 native kernel has PCIC(i82365 clone) timing problem on IBM z50. [0 comments]

 

New firmware for cats

Simtec have released new firmware for cats, I recommend that people install it. It's been noted that it has fixed an issue relating to X on for at least one person. The new firmware can be found on Simtec's website. Specifically on their cats support page. I would strongly recommend that cats users upgrade to 1.3. As the firmware allows for larger kernels, which means I'll be reenabling some devices in the -current INSTALL kernel. [0 comments]

 

(hp700) New -current kernel available

A new kernel, bootloader, and ld.elf_so have been uploaded. These fix problems from the snapshot based on 2002-07-06 sources. Copy the files from the hp700-update-20020905.tar.gz to your system. [0 comments]

 

X server for unsupported option cards

Andrew Doran made available an experimental wscons X server and kernel for NetBSD/pmax. This is useful for owners of PX, PXG or TX option cards who wish to use X11 on their DECstation. [0 comments]

 

support for cats

NetBSD/cats now has in tree support for xfree86 4.2.0. Sets haven't been built yet, but anyone wishing to try X needs to update to the latest xsrc. Note that you need 1.6BETA or 1.6 -current as the server uses the /dev/pci0 interface. Non-current users will need to add USE_XF86_4=YES to /etc/mk.conf. Note I'll be requesting pullups to 1.6, but they may not make it into 1.6.0. Update 2002-08-19: Sets for 1.6 RC1 are now available from ftp.NetBSD.org, in /pub/NetBSD/arch/cats/xsets The mirrors will probably pick it up in the near future. [0 comments]

 

Cats now has a mailing list

NetBSD/cats now has its own mailing list, port-cats. The list is for discussion of both cats and EBSA boards and issues relating to them. Generic arm issues should still goto the port-arm list. To subscribe use the links on the side. [0 comments]

 

IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140 support

Platform support was extended to the IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140. [0 comments]

 

Recent hardware support in -current

Martin Husemann has added nell sbus-to-PCMCIA support. See his announcement. Valeriy E. Ushakov has enhanced audiocs support, quashing bugs, adding audio input, and support for JavaStations. See his announcement and the current status. [0 comments]

 

(hp700) New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-12-09 sources is now available in the NetBSD/hp700 snapshot area of the ftp server. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD ported to Motorola MVMEPPC Single Board Computers

Thanks to a donation of two MVME160x boards (and a third "loaner") by Gan Starling, a port to Motorola's MVMEPPC Single Board Computers has been made possible.
NetBSD/mvmeppc is currently able to boot to multi-user on an MVME1603-051 board as a diskless NFS client. Work is in progress to add support for booting from disk. [0 comments]

 

Motorola Ultra 603 and Ultra Plus support

Platform support was extended to the Motorola Ultra 603 and Ultra Plus boards, which are the buildling blocks for systems such as the Bull ESTRELLA 200 series. [0 comments]