NetBSD/mvmeppc

o About NetBSD/mvmeppc  o

NetBSD/mvmeppc is the port of NetBSD to Motorola's PowerPC VME Single Board Computers (SBC). The first Motorola SBC (68k-based) was introduced in 1988. Motorola has continued development on 68k and PowerPC based SBC VME modules.

Development activity on NetBSD/mvmeppc continues at a speed that depends on people's spare time and access to hardware. NetBSD runs on a subset of the now obsolete MVME160x family of PowerPC-based MVME boards, but support for more recent boards will be added as and when hardware becomes available to NetBSD developers.

Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/mvmeppc are available for snapshots of NetBSD-current.


o NetBSD/mvmeppc News  o

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.

2002-02-27: NetBSD ported to Motorola MVMEPPC Single Board Computers
Thanks to a donation of two MVME160x boards (and a third "loaner") by Gan Starling, a port to Motorola's MVMEPPC Single Board Computers has been made possible.

NetBSD/mvmeppc is currently able to boot to multi-user on an MVME1603-051 board as a diskless NFS client. Work is in progress to add support for booting from disk.

Archive of NetBSD/mvmeppc news items


o Supported Single Board Computer Modules  o

Systems for which support is available in NetBSD-current are marked (-current)


o Boot Options  o

Supported:

  • network

Unsupported:

  • disk
  • CD-ROM
  • tape

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