Simon Burge is now the NetBSD/pmax co-port-maintainer

Please welcome Simon Burge to the NetBSD/pmax co-port-maintainer position. Simon has been a long-term contributor to the pmax port (and NetBSD in general), and has effectively performed many of the pmax port-maintainer tasks, including building the past few NetBSD/pmax releases. Simon joins Jonathon Stone as co-port-maintainer of the pmax port. [0 comments]

 

Some recent changes to NetBSD/bebox

Allen Briggs has added the ex driver (3Com 3c90x[BC]) to NetBSD/bebox, and used it for an NFS-based boot. This requires configuring the PCI bus at boot time, which requires the PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE option to exist in your kernel configuration file. Also, in addition to the tested 3Com card, all PCI devices supported under NetBSD/macppc should now work. Please tell the folks at the port-bebox if you have any problems. SCSI support is under development. [0 comments]

 

more ISDN drivers (amiga)

The Zorro bus driver support for the recently integrated isdn4bsd package has been enhanced to support also the BSC ISDN Master II, the Zeus ISDN Link and the Individual Computers ISDN Surfer. More information is available in Ignatios' announcement in the port-amiga mail archive (slightly corrected here). [0 comments]

 

(vax) Support for new CPU types

Michael Kukat has written support for a bunch of new CPU types, among them are MicroVAX 3100m90, MicroVAX 3100m95, VAX 4000/100, VAX 4000/105A, VAX 4000/108, VAX 4000/400, VAX 4000/500 and VAX 4000/600. [0 comments]

 

Sandpoint port is integrated

Initial commit of NetBSD/sandpoint code [0 comments]

 

New compat14 package available

Matthew Green has added a compat14 package to pkgsrc. This package contains NetBSD 1.4.3 shared libraries, and can add compatibility for dynamically linked executables compiled under NetBSD/sparc 1.4 (a.out) to a NetBSD/sparc 1.5 (elf) machine. [0 comments]

 

Support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter

Marcus Comstedt and Jason Thorpe have added support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter to the NetBSD/dreamcast port. This allows NetBSD/dreamcast to run from an NFS root file system. In addition to the Broadband Adapter, the keyboard and display console support has been improved. A session transcript from a telnet login to a Dreamcast running NetBSD on an NFS root is available. The kernel was loaded over the Broadband Adapter using Marcus' IP-slave boot loader. [0 comments]

 

initial WSCONS support (amiga)

An initial, still incomplete WSCONS support for the builtin Amiga graphics chips was contributed by Jukka Andberg and integrated. [0 comments]

 

GD-ROM device driver working

Marcus Comstedt has committed a working GD-ROM device driver. If you've burned a CD with NetBSD binaries, you can now type "gdrom0" when you get to the "root device" prompt (leave the dump device field empty, and type "cd9660" as file system). [0 comments]

 

isdn4bsd integrated (amiga)

The Zorro bus driver support for the recently integrated isdn4bsd package has been brought into NetBSD-current, too. For NetBSD-1.5, you still need to use the isdn4bsd add-on packet. [0 comments]

 

world21 with MQ200 driver

Yoshinari Inoue released the world21 with MQ200 driver. [0 comments]

 

Display and keyboard working within wscons (dreamcast)

Marcus Comstedt has gotten his display and keyboard drivers to work within the wscons framework. There's still work to do, but booting up a single user shell with the screen and keyboard as console works fine. [0 comments]