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About NetBSD/news68k

NetBSD/news68k is the port of NetBSD to SONY's m68k based “NET WORK STATION” series. More information on these machines is available.

NetBSD/news68k port is based on NetBSD/newsmips and NetBSD/m68k ports.

NetBSD/news68k News

2006-11-04:   NetBSD 3.1 released
NetBSD 3.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-3 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures. More information is available in the 3.1 release announcement.
2006-05-09:   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

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released
NetBSD 3.0 released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.
2005-11-02:   NetBSD 2.1 released
NetBSD 2.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.1 release announcement.
2004-12-09:   NetBSD 2.0 released
NetBSD 2.0 released with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement.
2004-03-01:   NetBSD 1.6.2 released
NetBSD 1.6.2 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement.
2003-04-21:   NetBSD 1.6.1 released
NetBSD 1.6.1 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.1 release announcement.

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Supported system models

Currently only single mc68030 based models are supported in NetBSD/news68k.

  • NWS-1750
  • PWS-1560
  • NWS-1450
  • NWS-1460
  • NWS-1530
  • NWS-1580
  • PWS-1550
  • NWS-1250 (not tested for many years; needs volunteers)

Supported peripherals

  • On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le(4))
  • On-board SONY CXD1180 SCSI interface (si(4))
  • Most SCSI devices
  • keyboard (kb), mouse (ms)
  • On-board Z8530 serial interfaces (zsc(4)) (only serial console is supported because no working framebuffer yet)

Not yet supported

Models / Devices / Functions

  • mc68020 based systems (NWS-700/800)
  • IOP based systems (NWS-800/1800)
  • CXD1185 SCSI interface on NWS-1200
  • internal floppy disk
  • framebuffers (ongoing, but needs hardware info)
  • COMPAT_NEWSOS

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