NetBSD/atari

About NetBSD/atari  NetBSD/atari is the port of NetBSD to the Atari line of personal computers. Development activity on NetBSD/atari continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/atari runs on the TT030, Falcon and Hades. Experimental support is available for the Milan. Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/atari are available for the 1.6.2 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current. NetBSD/atari News  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. 2002-09-14: NetBSD 1.6 released NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement. 2002-07-22: NetBSD 1.5.3 released NetBSD 1.5.3 released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.3 release announcement. 2001-09-22: NetBSD/atari switches to ELF Thomas Gerner has committed changes to convert the NetBSD/atari port to ELF. With the COMPAT_AOUT_M68K kernel option, all your old a.out binaries should still work. Note that a.out versions of ifconfig(8) and route(8) will not work due to some structure alignment problems. A NetBSD/atari ELF snapshot is available in the atari snapshot area of the ftp server (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.6 was released on 2002-09-14). 2001-09-13: NetBSD 1.5.2 released NetBSD 1.5.2 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.2 release announcement. 2001-07-11: NetBSD 1.5.1 released NetBSD 1.5.1 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.1 release announcement. 2001-06-12: Experimental Milan kernels available Experimental Milan kernels are now available in the NetBSD/atari snapshot area of the ftp server. Archive of NetBSD/atari news items Supported Hardware  A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4MB RAM (of which 2MB can be ST-RAM) and a SCSI or IDE disk. An FPU is not really necessary because the BOOT and BOOTX kernels supplied in the distribution both contain FPU-emulation support. Although the current emulation does not yet cover the full mc68882 instruction set, you will see that you will get a very workable system. Hardware marked NEW! is only supported in NetBSD-current. Other hardware is supported in NetBSD 1.6. ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH Falcon video (except Direct Color - 15/16 bit depth) Hades et4000/w32-pci video adapter Hades et6000-pci and et6100-pci video adapter Builtin 5380 SCSI adapter Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM's, tape's and ZIP drives Realtime clock SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2) 720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive Parallel printer The IDE interface on both Falcon and Hades (Including ATAPI) The serial interface on the first 68901 UART (modem1) 68060 support for the Hades The Falcon FX memory expansion The atari mouse A 3-button mouse (see build description) Supported VME-bus devices (TT030/Hades) VME BVME410 ethernet Circad Leonardo 24-bit VME graphics adapter Crazy Dots VME et4000 graphics adapter VME Riebl (and possibly PAM) ethernet Supported Hades PCI-devices Adaptec 2940U SCSI NOT! (see below). ESS Technology Inc. Solo-1 Soundcard 3Com 3c59x Network card Supported Hades ISA-devices I4BSD support for the teles 16.3 card NE2000 compatible cards Supported Milan PCI-devices Intel EtherExpress PRO 10+/100B Beware! The Hades PCI bus is very critical. Many cards are not recognized. This seems to be due to electrical problems. The current Adaptec driver does no longer work, unfortunately.

NetBSD/atari Information NetBSD/atari FAQ NetBSD/atari History NetBSD/atari Todo List Mailing Lists The NetBSD/atari mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to Atari's TT030, Falcon, Hades and Milan machines: [ subscribe | archive ] The NetBSD/m68k mailing list, covering all of the m68k-based ports: [ subscribe | archive ] Current Release NetBSD/atari 1.6.2 via FTP NetBSD/atari 2.0 Install Notes NetBSD/atari 1.6 pre-built binary packages via the NetBSD package system NetBSD 2.0 release announcement NetBSD/atari changes to 1.6 Changes from NetBSD 1.6 to NetBSD 2.0 NetBSD FTP Mirror Sites NetBSD on CD-ROM Future Releases NetBSD/atari changes from 2.0 to 3.0 NetBSD/atari binary snapshots of NetBSD-current Related Links Mail the NetBSD/atari port maintainer

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