Cats moves to its own arch dir

NetBSD/cats is now in its own arch dir, sys/arch /cats Kernels should be built from there. Note that GENERIC has grown as it now contains all the currently supported USB devices. Any cats specific bugs should be reported using the newly created port-cats category in send-pr. [0 comments]

 

Support for Algorithmics P-4032 board committed

Jason Thorpe has written and committed support for the Algorithmics P-4032, an older board for the R4xxx CPU family. Thanks to Carl Shapiro for providing a P-4032 board. [0 comments]

 

boot with local root (acorn26)

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has gotten support for booting with root on a local disk. [0 comments]

 

DMA in HCCS SCSI driver

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has committed support for the pseudo-DMA facilities of the HCCS SCSI podule. This gets speed up to 300 KB/s. [0 comments]

 

DMA in HCCS SCSI driver

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has committed support for the pseudo-DMA facilities of the HCCS SCSI podule. This gets speed up to 300 KB/s [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/algor port committed

The NetBSD/algor port is committed to the source tree. The port initially supports the Algorithmics P-5064 board. The port was done by Jason Thorpe, with a P-5064 board provided by Allegro Networks. [0 comments]

 

Netbooting NetBSD/sun2 documentation

Matthew Fredette, the NetBSD/sun2 port maintainer, has added instructions on netbooting NetBSD/sun2 to the NetBSD Diskless HOWTO. [0 comments]

 

sun2 snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-04-21 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sun2 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.6 was released on 2002-09-14) [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/cesfic port imported

Known working kernel bits for the NetBSD/cesfic port have been imported into the NetBSD source tree. The port is working well with a.out userland, there are some problems with ELF still, like applications running out of memory where it is not expected. See the README file for more details. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/next68k switches to ELF

Chuck Silvers has committed changes to convert the NetBSD/next68k port to ELF. With the COMPAT_AOUT_M68K kernel option, all your old a.out binaries should still work. Note that a.out versions of ifconfig(8) and route(8) will not work due to some structure alignment problems.
No full NetBSD/next68k ELF snapshot has been made available yet, but you can grab the NetBSD/sun3 ELF snapshot at:

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/snapshot/

The NetBSD/sun3 ELF snapshot will do fine for userland, and Chuck has put a NetBSD/next68k ELF kernel and boot program at:

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/next68k/ELF/ [0 comments]

 

Recent additions to NetBSD/sgimips

Rafal K. Boni has added a lot of new support to NetBSD/sgimips that has been committed to NetBSD-current. Most notably is new support for the IP22 (Indigo2, Indy, Challenge S). A list of all the major new additions is as follows:

• Support for the IP22 (Indigo2, Indy, Challenge S)
• Support for the HPC I/O peripheral ASIC. There is where SCSI, Ethernet, etc. live on the Indigo2 and Indy
• Support for the Seeq 8003 Ethernet attached to the HPC ASIC, found on the Indigo2 and Indy
• Support for the Dallas 1286 clock found on the Indigo2 and Indy
• IOC1/2 memory map
• Support for the Indigo2/Indy IMC (this is that to which all other devices are attached)
• Support for the SCC serial ports on Indigo2 and Indy
• Support for configuring an SCC console
• Generic software interrupt implementation, derived from NetBSD/mipsco
• Basic EISA support for the Indigo2
• Dynamic system configuration support, derived from NetBSD/pmax

An example kernel configuration file for Rafal's Indigo2 can be found in sys/arch/sgimips/conf/TEAL. [0 comments]

 

Port page created (sun2)

NetBSD/sun2 now has a port page on www.NetBSD.org. [0 comments]