NetBSD/dreamcast news archive


March 2004
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.

April 2003
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.

December 2002
2002-12-27: Support for the SEGA LAN Adapter
Support for the SEGA LAN Adapter is added, based on patch in port-dreamcast/17493 from Christian Groessler.

November 2002
2002-11-15: New Maple bus drivers
ITOH Yasufumi has rewritten Maple bus driver and has added support for memory card and monochrome LCD on the Maple bus.

September 2002
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.

February 2001
2001-02-02: Support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter
Marcus Comstedt and Jason Thorpe have added support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter to the NetBSD/dreamcast port. This allows NetBSD/dreamcast to run from an NFS root file system. In addition to the Broadband Adapter, the keyboard and display console support has been improved.

A session transcript from a telnet login to a Dreamcast running NetBSD on an NFS root is available. The kernel was loaded over the Broadband Adapter using Marcus' IP-slave boot loader.


January 2001
2001-01-22: GD-ROM device driver working
Marcus Comstedt has committed a working GD-ROM device driver. If you've burned a CD with NetBSD binaries, you can now type "gdrom0" when you get to the "root device" prompt (leave the dump device field empty, and type "cd9660" as file system).

2001-01-18: Display and keyboard working within wscons
Marcus Comstedt has gotten his display and keyboard drivers to work within the wscons framework. There's still work to do, but booting up a single user shell with the screen and keyboard as console works fine.

December 2000
2000-12-24: CD image for Dreamcast
Hiroyuki Bessho made a CD image for Dreamcast available. See mailing list archive for details.

July 2000
2000-07-15: Progress on Dreamcast port
The port of the NetBSD operating system to Sega's Dreamcast game console is reaching a state where it's near to single user mode. Utilizing the NetBSD/evbsh3 port's simple structure and the fact that it supports both big and little endian architectures as well as the general clean design of the NetBSD operating system helped for this port. Device drivers for the game pad, keyboard etc. are next on the todo-list of Saitoh Masanobu, who works on this port.

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