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]

 

JavaStation support

Valeriy E. Ushakov has announced experimental support for JavaStation-1 and JavaStation-10 systems with patches to -current. His patches add support for netbooting, keyboards, mice, and X. See the JavaStation status for the current status of JavaStation support and the location of his patches. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/amiga now has two-stage booter

Michael L. Hitch has updated NetBSD/amiga -current to have a two-stage booter.

The first stage is bootxx_ffs (for ffs boot partitions) or bootxx_fd (for bootable floppy disk). These locate, load, and execute the second stage loader boot.amiga. The console screen is created and passed to the second stage loader.

The second stage loader uses loadfile() to load the kernel image, which can be either a.out or ELF format, and can also be compressed (via gzip(1)). It will load a kernel file from ffs file systems or the ustarfs used on floppy disks.

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Improvements in Acorn NC support

Ben Harris has modified the "ne at podulebus" driver to work around a bug in the MX98905 chip used on EtherI and EtherN cards, so they can now be used on NetBSD. He has also tweaked the vidcvideo driver to find screen modes correctly on the ARM7500. Between them, these allow an NC_WSCONS kernel to come up multi-user, with a proper display.
Ben is now working on getting X up and running on his Acorn NC. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/acorn32 created

NetBSD/acorn32 split off from NetBSD/arm32 and is now maintained by Reinoud Zandijk as part of the ARM team. [0 comments]