Support for MI VMEbus Drivers Extended!

The MI VMEbus driver support added earlier this year has been extended to encompass VMEbus slave mode. This means that not only can MVME147 and MVME167 boards access slave boards over the VMEbus, but other VMEbus master boards can access memory reserved for this purpose on the MVME147 and MVME167. This is especially useful for VMEbus boards which can perform DMA transfers directly into host memory. Work is still ongoing to fully complete this feature, but it is functional enough to be useful right now. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/mipsco imported

Initial commit of NetBSD/mipsco code. [0 comments]

 

prep snapshot now available

Userland and kernel snapshot, based on 2000/08/02 sources, is now available in the NetBSD/prep snapshot area of the ftp server. [0 comments]

 

Ether3 driver

The ea driver for SEEQ 8005-based Ethernet cards (usually known as Ether3s) is now minimally usable. [0 comments]

 

FOURMEG kernel

The 20000714 snapshot now includes an additional kernel configuration, FOURMEG, which I hope will be small enough to boot on systems with 4Mb of RAM. [0 comments]

 

arm26 cross compiler in pkgsrc

The NetBSD package system now contains a set of cross-build tools for NetBSD/arm26 in the cross/armv2-netbsd package. [0 comments]

 

Progress on Dreamcast port

The port of the NetBSD operating system to Sega's Dreamcast game console is reaching a state where it's near to single user mode. Utilizing the NetBSD/evbsh3 port's simple structure and the fact that it supports both big and little endian architectures as well as the general clean design of the NetBSD operating system helped for this port. Device drivers for the game pad, keyboard etc. are next on the todo-list of Saitoh Masanobu, who works on this port. [0 comments]

 

Support for dynamically linked VAX ELF programs

Matt Thomas has committed changes so that ld.elf_so can now load and run dynamically linked VAX ELF programs. [0 comments]

 

First 1.5_ALPHA snapshot (mvme68k)

The first mvme68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources as of 2000-07-02, is now available in the NetBSD/mvme68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000) [0 comments]

 

First 1.5_ALPHA snapshot (cobalt)

The first cobalt 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources as of 2000-06-24, is available the the NetBSD/cobalt snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000) [0 comments]

 

new sgimips snapshot

Userland snapshot and O2 kernel, based on 2000-06-20 sources, are available in the NetBSD/sgimips snapshot area of the ftp server. [0 comments]

 

Regained support for MFM disks on VS2000

Anders Magnusson has checked in fixes to use the VS2000 MFM disks again. Along with that, VS2000 SCSI DMA should be able to cooperate with it. VS2000 still doesn't have floppy support back yet, since there is no obvious way to detect which type of drive there is. More details are available in Ander's announcement in the port-vax mail archive. [0 comments]