About NetBSD/mac68k
NetBSD/mac68k is the port of NetBSD to Apple Macintosh computers
that utilize the Motorola 68k-series processor. It should run on most
Macintoshes with a 68040 or 68030 processor, and on Macs with a 68020
processor (provided that they also have a 68851 PMMU). For Macs using
the PowerPC processor, please take a look at
NetBSD/macppc.
The mac68k port was originally known as MacBSD. It began as a port
of the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (more commonly known as Net/2)
with 386BSD-0.1 filling in the cracks. This was running in a basic form
in the late spring of 1992. About that time, it became obvious that
386BSD was a dead end, and NetBSD looked like the way to go. The
initial NetBSD merge was into the 0.8 released sources. The first
formal release of NetBSD/mac68k was as a part of NetBSD 1.0.
NetBSD/mac68k was the first free OS to run on a 680x0-based Macintosh, and
currently supports more of these systems than any free OS.
Development activity on NetBSD/mac68k continues at its usual pace
(in other words, when the volunteers find time). Much progress has
been made, however, and most desktop systems can boot to a usable
state.
Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/mac68k will soon be available for
the 2.0 release and for
snapshots of NetBSD-current.
NetBSD/mac68k 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.
- 2002-04-28: IDE drive support
- Takeshi
Shibagaki has committed
IDE drive support to -current. So far this is known to work on
Quadra 630 series and PowerBook 150 series machines. It has not yet
been tested on other systems.
- 2002-03-25: NetBSD/mac68k switches to ELF
- NetBSD/mac68k is now using ELF as its native object file format in -current.
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/mac68k ELF snapshot is available in the mac68k
snapshot area of the ftp server
(snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.6 was released on
2002-09-14). Also available are
instructions
for upgrading to ELF from this snapshot or from source.
- 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.
- 2001-07-21: New -current snapshot available
- A new -current snapshot based on 2001-07-21 sources is now available
in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server.
(snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.6 was released on
2002-09-14)
- 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. Update 07/12: NetBSD/mac68k 1.5.1 release
binaries are now available.
Archive of NetBSD/mac68k news items
Supported System Models
Systems for which support was added in NetBSD 1.4 are marked
(1.4).
Systems for which support was added in NetBSD 1.5 are marked
(1.5).
Systems marked with a *
are based on the 68LC040, and
FPU functions
are not yet fully supported on these machines.
Systems marked with a + may
not work properly under 1.5, but are expected to run under 1.5.2 and
later releases when they become available.
- Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30
- Mac IIci
- Mac IIsi, IIvx, IIvi
- Performa 400/405/410/430, 450, 460/466/467
- LC/Performa 520, 550/560
- Performa 600/600CD
- MacTV
- LC II, III, III+
- Classic II (1.5)
- Color Classic (1.5)
- Centris 650
- Quadra 700 +
- Quadra 610, 650, 800
- Quadra/Centris 660AV
- Quadra 840AV
- Quadra 630
- Centris 610 (1.4) *
- Quadra 610 DOS (1.4) *
- Quadra 605 (1.4) *
- LC 475, Performa 475/476 (1.4) *
- LC 575, Performa 575/577/578, (1.4) *
- LC 580, Performa 580/588 (1.4) *
- LC 630/630 DOS, Performa 630/631/635/636/637/638 (1.4) *
- Performa 640 DOS (1.4) *
- PowerBook 170 (1.4)
- PowerBook 160/165/180 (1.5)
- PowerBook 550c (1.4)
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