Switched to MI com (hp300)

NetBSD/hp300 has switched to use the machine independent serial com device to simplify code maintenance. This currently only applies to the dca and apci devices until others get tested [0 comments]

 

Support for NetBSD/next68k in installboot

Christian Limpach added support for NetBSD/next68k to the unified installboot. [0 comments]

 

Polish keymaps

Pawel Chwalowski has contributed polish wscons keymaps. [0 comments]

 

Driver for HP Jornada 680/690 touch-screen

Support for HP Jornada 680/690 touch-screen is now provided by the j6x0tp(4) driver. See the post by Valeriy Ushakov for more information. [0 comments]

 

O2 support now functional again

O2 (IP32) support is now functional again by fixes contributed by Christopher SEKIYA. Support for R10000 based O2 is also added. [0 comments]

 

netwinder arm port Xscale optimizations

Steve Woodford announced that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. Please see his message to the port-arm Mailing List for details. [0 comments]

 

arm port Xscale optimizations

Steve Woodford announced that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. Please see his message to the port-arm Mailing List for details. [0 comments]

 

Experimental ABLE firmware support on cats

Chris Gilbert has added experimental ABLE firmware support on cats, please see his mail to port-cats for more information. [0 comments]

 

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]