new bootloader for sandpoint

The new bootloader is called altboot and can load the kernel via TFTP, NFS, or from the NetBSD root partition on a local disk. [0 comments]

 

BlizzardPPC SCSI driver

Radoslaw Kujawa submitted a driver for the 53c710 based host adapter found on BlizzardPPC 603e+ boards. [0 comments]

 

RDB partitioning supported

The ofwboot boot loader and the kernel understand the RDB partitioning format, which allows a Pegasos user to run NetBSD, MorphOS and AmigaOS from the same disk. [0 comments]

 

eMIPS port published on research.microsoft.com

The original eMIPS source and binaries for NetBSD 4.0.1 offered for download from research.microsoft.com. [0 comments]

 

DCburn and DCserv helper images for NetBSD/dreamcast 5.1

Two pre-built NetBSD/i386 disk images “DCburn” and “DCserv”, which will provide easy setup for NetBSD/dreamcast, are available. See announcement on port-dreamcast mailing list for more details. [0 comments]

 

Changed charter to focus on NAS products

The primary hardware platform is now consumer NAS systems, running on Freescale MPC8241 and MPC8245 CPUs. Initially the KuroBox/Linkstation and the Synology product family is known to work. QNAP TS and Iomega StorCenter support is prepared, but untested. Read also the official announcement on port-sandpoint. [0 comments]

 

first boot into multiuser (amigappc)

For the first time an A3000 with Cyberstorm/PPC booted the current powerpc userland from a hard disk connected to the A3000 internal SCSI into multi user mode. [0 comments]

 

(shark) Accelerated X support

As announced by Michael Lorenz on the NetBSD blog, the shark port recently grew better support for X. Among other things, this means it is now possible to generate an X config file by running X -configure. For full details, see Michael's blog entry. [0 comments]

 

Quick procedure to run NetBSD/sun2 5.0.1 on TME

A pre-built disk image of NetBSD/sun2 5.0.1 release for TME is available for easy trial of NetBSD/sun2 on the machine emulator using pre-compiled tme binaries on modern machines. See annoucement message for details. [0 comments]

 

Xen3 PCI pass-through

PCI pass-through support has been added for both domain0 and domU. domain0 kernel gets a pciback PCI drivers, to which device specified in the pciback.hide boot parameter will attach. DomU kernels gets a xpci device, to which pci busses will attach. More details in the NetBSD/xen Howto. [0 comments]

 

i386 PAE domain0 support

Missing pieces for a domain0 kernel supporting the i386 PAE extensions has been added to current. A new kernel XEN3PAE_DOM0 should show up in the next HEAD autobuild. This kernel can be used with a i386 PAE or x86_64 hypervisor. The sysutils/xenkernel3 and sysutils/xenkernel33 packages for i386 both provide i386 PAE hypervisor kernels. [0 comments]

 

IP6 and IP10 support in-tree

Support for Personal IRIS 4D20 (IP6) and 4D/25 (IP10) has been added to -current. [0 comments]