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.