IBM 7044-270 Support added

NetBSD/ofppc has been ported to the IBM 7044-270 (POWER3-II cpu). The machine has a 64bit POWER3-II CPU, which is what the modern POWER4 and POWER5 chips were based on. Currently, NetBSD only runs on this machine in 32bit mode. See the complete details in the official announcement. [0 comments]

 

New ofppc portmaster

Tim Rightnour has taken over the role of portmaster for NetBSD/ofppc. More details are available in the official announcement. [0 comments]

 

Initial import of NetBSD/rs6000

NetBSD/rs6000, a new powerpc port for the early MCA-based IBM RS/6000 workstations, has been imported. More details (including kernel dmesg) are available in Tim Rightnour's annoucement. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/xen Howto updated

The NetBSD/xen Howto has been updated with some details about Xen on amd64. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD runs on Xen/amd64

NetBSD current now includes amd64 kernels that will run on top of the x86_64 Xen hypervisor. NetBSD/amd64 can run as both domain 0 and domU, and supports the same features as i386 (including HVM support if the hardware supports it), and in addition can run 32bit guests which uses the PAE extensions. [0 comments]

 

Rebirth of NetBSD/ofppc

NetBSD/ofppc has been rewritten from the ground up, and is now once again a viable, and supported port of NetBSD. The port now boots into single user mode on a bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. More information, as well as dmesg of the first boot, are available in the announcement to port-ofppc. [0 comments]

 

Driver for Buddha and Catweasel/Z2

The Buddha and Catweasel/Z2 IDE controllers from Individual Computers are supported by wdc(4). [0 comments]

 

Motorola MTX604 Support

Support for the Motorola MTX604 and Raven host bridge based machines has been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

wscons support for O2 in-tree

wscons support with SGI-CRM graphics controller and MACE based keyboard/mouse on IP32 (i.e. O2 machines) is now in-tree. [0 comments]

 

Abit uGuru Hardware monitor driver

Thanks to the work of Mihai Chelaru, a driver for the Abit uGuru Hardware system monitor was committed in -current. Abit uGuru is a hardware chip in the Abit(TM) motherboards to monitor and control the system including fans, temperatures and voltages. For now the ug(4) driver only can show the values on these sensors. A pullup has been sent for netbsd-4, so it will appear in the next major NetBSD version. More information about uGuru can be seen at: Abit's uGuru page. [0 comments]

 

(shark) XFree86 support

Support for XFree86 is back. Sharks with IGS 2010 graphics controller can now use XFree86 with the wsfb driver on kernels that use the igsfb driver. Those with a C&T 65550 should work with the chips driver but this is untested. See also the announcement on the port-arm mailing list. An example XF86Config can be found here. [0 comments]

 

(sgimips) Multiple Bug Fixes / Features Added

Multiple bug fixes and feature additions were made to the sgimips port over the holidays, including: support for E++ GIO Ethernet adapters, Set Engineering GIO Fast Ethernet cards, Indigo Light (LG1/LG2) framebuffers, and timecounters on IP12. Bug fixes primarily centred around the IP12 port. Most changes are in -current and unlikely to make the NetBSD 4.0 release. [0 comments]