NetBSD/amiga news archive

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.

2003-11-12: PAL support for WSCONS

Jukka Andberg added PAL support to amidisplaycc(4) (wscons).

2003-10-25: Polish keymaps

Pawel Chwalowski has contributed polish wscons keymaps.

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.

2001-12-19: NetBSD/amiga now has two-stage booter

Michael L. Hitch has updated NetBSD/amiga -current to have a two-stage booter.

The first stage is bootxx_ffs (for ffs boot partitions) or bootxx_fd (for bootable floppy disk). These locate, load, and execute the second stage loader boot.amiga. The console screen is created and passed to the second stage loader.

The second stage loader uses loadfile() to load the kernel image, which can be either a.out or ELF format, and can also be compressed (via gzip(1)). It will load a kernel file from ffs file systems or the ustarfs used on floppy disks.

2001-10-06: file(1) recognizes Amiga icons

The file(1) command in NetBSD-current has been taught to recognize Amiga Workbench icon (.info) files and their basic types. This is not a NetBSD/amiga specific, but NetBSD/amiga users will most likely make use of this. This change is scheduled to be in the NetBSD-1.6 release, and will furthermore be available in the generic file for Unix distribution maintained by Christos Zoulas.

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.

2001-05-16: 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot available

A NetBSD/amiga 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-05-10, is now available in the NetBSD/amiga snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

2001-05-01: 1.5.1_BETA snapshot available

A NetBSD/amiga 1.5.1_BETA snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-04-28, is now available in the NetBSD/amiga snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

2001-02-26: New developer

Jukka Andberg <jandberg@NetBSD.org> has joined the NetBSD team; his task will be to further enhance his initial WSCONS support, which was integrated recently.

2001-02-08: more ISDN drivers

The Zorro bus driver support for the recently integrated isdn4bsd package has been enhanced to support also the BSC ISDN Master II, the Zeus ISDN Link and the Individual Computers ISDN Surfer. More information is available in Ignatios' announcement in the port-amiga mail archive (slightly corrected here).

2001-02-02: initial WSCONS support

An initial, still incomplete WSCONS support for the builtin Amiga graphics chips was contributed by Jukka Andberg and integrated.

2001-01-21: isdn4bsd integrated

The Zorro bus driver support for the recently integrated isdn4bsd package has been brought into NetBSD-current, too. For NetBSD-1.5, you still need to use the isdn4bsd add-on packet.

2000-12-06: NetBSD 1.5 released

NetBSD 1.5 released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5 release announcement.

2000-11-25: NetBSD 1.4.3 released

NetBSD 1.4.3 released with support for 16 architectures. More information is available in the 1.4.3 release announcement.

2000-05-26: First public view of NetBSD/AmigaPPC

A preliminary NetBSD/AmigaPPC - kernel can now be built from -current sources using the cross/powerpc-netbsd package. A lot of the actual work was done by Adam Ciarcinski, with consultation and input from other NetBSD/powerpc ports and Ignatios Souvatzis. Currently, only some kernel bootup will be displayed.

2000-05-24: New Developer

Bernardo Innocenti (who in the past enhanced the mainboard audio driver) will work on using sysinst(8) for installing NetBSD/amiga.

2000-04-29: Binary Packages

Over 600 MB of binary packages are now available for NetBSD/amiga 1.4.2.

2000-03-19: NetBSD 1.4.2 released

NetBSD 1.4.2 released with support for 16 architectures. Amiga specific changes include an Ethernet driver for the X-surf board and a Year-2000 fix.

2000-02-05: MI A4000/A1200 wdc support

Michael Hitch added support for using the machine independent wdc driver for the A1200/A4000 IDE ports.

2000-01-24: PCMCIA for Amiga 1200

Vincent Aymeric's PCMCIA support was integrated into NetBSD-current. Tested with a few network cards.

2000-01-02: Year-2000 patch for NetBSD/amiga

NetBSD/amiga up to -1.4.1 won't read out the date from battery backed clocks when booted on an Amiga after 1999. This has been fixed in NetBSD-1.4.2.

1999-12-17: Support for X-surf boards (Ethernet port)

The Ethernet port of X-surf boards is supported in NetBSD-current.

1999-10-18: Reboot support for Phase5 PPC/68040 boards

Special code needed to reboot an Amiga running a Phase5 PPC+MC68040 accelerator board was added to NetBSD-current.

1999-10-15: tcpdump supports ARCnet

tcpdump/libpcap can now be used to diagnose ARCnet networking problems. While this is not Amiga specific, only the Zorro-bus ARCnet boards are currently supported in NetBSD.

1999-08-26: NetBSD-1.4.1 released

Some new Amiga specific features include support for parallel ports on the HyperCom 3+/4+ boards.

1999-05-12: NetBSD-1.4 released

The NetBSD 1.4 release supports sixteen architectures, and was distributed free by Usenix to all 1999 ATC attendees.

Some new Amiga specific features include support for HyperCom 3+/4+ serial boards, Cyberstorm Mk.3/PPC SCSI host support (including wide and FAST-20 transfers), more data types supported by the internal audio driver, and Ariadne-II Ethernet board support.

The parallel ports of the HyperCom 3+ and 4+ Zorro-bus boards are supported in NetBSD-current.

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