NetBSD goes multiuser on Zaurus

NONAKA Kimihiro sent this message, explaining he had ported NetBSD to the Zaurus. [0 comments]

 

(hp700) boot-from-disk fixed

The boot-from-disk memory corruption bug has been found and fixed in -current. Installing to and booting from disk is now reliable. [0 comments]

 

update to 3.0.3 and HVM support

Manuel Bouyer announced in a message to the port-xen mailing list that the xentools30 and xenkernel30 packages have been updated to the just-released Xen-3.0.3. A new package, xentools30-hvm, has been committed to pkgsrc-current. It provides the additional tools needed to run unmodified guests under a NetBSD domain0, using Intel VT-x or AMD SVM virtualization extensions. NetBSD, Linux and Windows XP have been successfully booted in a Xen HVM domain. [0 comments]

 

new driver sec(4) for the Acorn SCSI Expansion Card

Ben Harris committed a new driver sec(4) for the Acorn SCSI Expansion. Unlike asc(4), this driver uses the board's DMA system, uses the machine-independent WD33C93 driver, works on NetBSD/acorn26, and doesn't share a name with six other machine-dependent SCSI drivers. Not tested on acorn32, but it seems to work tolerably well on an A540. [0 comments]

 

acorn26 now uses standard ARM bus space implementation

Ben Harris committed a change to move over to using the standard ARM bus_space implementation on acorn26. This is more flexible than the old acorn26 bus_space, which means that single read/write operations are slower, but multi and region operations have the potential to be faster, and particularly insane podules might be supportable. [0 comments]

 

IBM 7025-F40 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7025 model F40 has been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD/landisk port imported

NetBSD was ported to LANDISK by NONAKA Kimihiro. NetBSD 4.0 will be the first release to include LANDISK support. [0 comments]

 

New xen port maintainer

After Manuel Bouyer had already taken over most of the tasks of a port maintainer, due to Christian Limpach's lack of time, he is now the official maintainer of NetBSD/xen. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD running on JavaStation Espresso

Julian Coleman reported that together with Valeriy E. Ushakov he was able to make NetBSD boot in single-user mode on a JavaStation Espresso. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD as Domain0 for Xen3

Manuel Bouyer announced in a message to the port-xen mailing list that NetBSD is finally usable as a Domain0 with version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor. [0 comments]

 

binary packages for m68k available

About 1000 packages built from the latest branch pkgsrc-2006Q1 by Greg Oster are now available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/packages-2006Q1/NetBSD-3.0/m68k. The packages can be used on all ports based on m68k.
For some more details, see Greg Oster's announcement [0 comments]

 

IBM 7025-F30 and Motorola Powerstack E1 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7025 model F30 and the Motorola Powerstack E1 have been added to the prep port. [0 comments]