(mipsco) Model number information page


November 14, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Model number information added to NetBSD/mipsco web pages. [0 comments]

 

MI wscons support (newsmips)


November 13, 2000 posted by Blog Import

NetBSD/newsmips has switched to MI wscons. Currently NWB-253 on NWS-3470D and "XA" framebuffer on NWS-5000 are supported. [0 comments]

 

MVME162 Supported in 1.5 branch, plus additional board support


November 04, 2000 posted by Blog Import

The 1.5_BETA snapshot, mentioned below, is the first available snapshot with MVME162 support, after it was recently pulled up onto the 1.5 branch. Also, NetBSD/mvme68k has been confirmed to work on the latest versions of Motorola's MVME162 boards containing the Petra ASIC. [0 comments]

 

New Mozilla port available


October 31, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Charles Hannum has ported Mozilla to the SPARC CPU type. A prebuilt package for NetBSD/sparc 1.5 is available, see the mozilla page under the NetBSD Packages Collection. More information on this, and the other CPU types that there are new Mozilla ports for, is available in Charles' message in the netbsd-announce mail archive. [0 comments]

 

Support for SCSI on NWS-5000


October 30, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Support for the HP SPIFI3-SE SCSI interface used on news5000 is added. [0 comments]

 

FAW started (cobalt)


October 30, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Extracted all(?) bits of interest from the mailing list's archive so far, and put together into a FAQ [0 comments]

 

next68k color support


October 24, 2000 posted by Blog Import

The nextdisplay console driver now supports non-turbo color machines. [0 comments]

 

sun3x pmap fix


October 21, 2000 posted by Blog Import

A long-standing pmap bug which causes "out of space kmem_map" panic on sun3x is now fixed. [0 comments]

 

New snapshot available (acorn26)


October 13, 2000 posted by Blog Import

A new snapshot based on 2000-10-05 -current sources is now available in the NetBSD/arm26 snapshot area of the ftp server. [0 comments]

 

Support for tulip based NWB-5852A


October 12, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Atsushi Onoe has added support for the tulip based 100BaseTX card NWB-5852A, which is an APbus board with DEC-21140A chip. It supports 100BaseTX only. Half duplex/Full duplex can be specified manually, but there is no auto negotiation functionality. [0 comments]

 

Booting off RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors


September 13, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Simon Burge has added support for booting off RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors to NetBSD/pmax -current. This support has been pulled into the netbsd-1-5 branch, so it will be available in NetBSD 1.5. [0 comments]

 

MVME162-LX 200/300 Support Added


September 06, 2000 posted by Blog Import

Preliminary support for the LX 200/300 variants of MVME162 has been added to NetBSD/mvme68k. Boards with less only 4MB of memory will need extra RAM in the form of a VMEbus memory board. Boards with less than 4MB of RAM are not supported. [0 comments]