pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Ryo ONODERA

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The next one is with Ryo ONODERA, a Japanese developer maintaining large C++ packages.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Jonathan Perkin

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The next one is with Jonathan Perkin, a developer in the Joyent team.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Benny Siegert

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The next one is with Benny Siegert, a developer active in the release engineering team.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Thomas Klausner

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The 3rd one is with Thomas Klausner, a developer well known for his maintainership of the pkgsrc-wip project.

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64-bit ARM boards received from Rikomagic

Rikomagic was kind enough to provide engineering samples of their RKM MK68 systems and documentation to a few NetBSD developers to assist in improving the aarch64 port.

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NetBSD on the NVIDIA Jetson TK1

NetBSD is now running on the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 development kit. The NVIDIA Jetson TK1 is a quad-core ARMv7 development board that features an NVIDIA Tegra K1 (32-bit) SoC (quad-core Cortex-A15 @ 2.3GHz), 2GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, SATA, HDMI, mini-PCIE, and more.

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CI20 status update

Some more hardware support has been added including ohci, ethernet and I2C, also all RAM is usable now.
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NetBSD ported to Hardkernel ODROID-C1

NetBSD was recently ported to the Hardkernel ODROID-C1. The Hardkernel ODROID-C1 is a quad-core ARMv7 development board that features an Amlogic S805 SoC (quad-core Cortex-A5 @ 1.5GHz), 1GB RAM and gigabit ethernet for $35 USD.

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Raspberry PI 2 support added

Initial support is now available for the Raspberry PI 2.

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CI20 reaches userland

My CI20 now makes it to userland, with root and ethernet via USB.
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Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7

With the latest updates to NetBSD 7, the Raspberry Pi port now supports hardware acceleration using the built-in Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU. This enables 3D graphics acceleration and hardware accelerated video playback, a first for NetBSD/arm.

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The State of Accelerated Graphics on NetBSD/sparc, updated

This is an update to this post.
Some new drivers were added ( cgtwelve, mgx ), others got improvements ( SX acceleration, support for 8bit tcx ).[Read More] [2 comments]