About NetBSD/newsmips
NetBSD/newsmips is the port of NetBSD to SONY's MIPS based
"NET WORK STATION" series. More information
on these machines is available.
NetBSD/newsmips port is based on NetBSD/{mips,pmax} and 4.4BSD Lite2.
m68k based NEWS machines are supported by NetBSD/news68k port.
NetBSD/newsmips News
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2005-12-23:
NetBSD 3.0 released
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NetBSD 3.0 has been
released with support for 57 architectures. More information
is available in the
3.0 release
announcement.
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2005-11-02:
NetBSD 2.1 released
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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.
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2004-12-09:
NetBSD 2.0 released
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NetBSD 2.0 released
with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in
the 2.0 release
announcement.
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2004-03-01:
NetBSD 1.6.2 released
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NetBSD 1.6.2 released
with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.6.2 release
announcement.
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2003-04-21:
NetBSD 1.6.1 releases
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NetBSD 1.6.1 released
with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.6.1 release
announcement.
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2003-04-21:
New -current snapshot available
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A new -current snapshot based on 2003-04-19 sources is now available
in the NetBSD/newsmips snapshot
area of the ftp server.
Note this snapshot contains a fix of boot floppy problem
on news3400 machines with serial console.
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2002-09-14:
NetBSD 1.6 releases
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NetBSD 1.6 released
with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.6 release
announcement.
Archive of NetBSD/newsmips news items
Supported System Models
Currently only single CPU models are supported in
NetBSD/newsmips.
- R3000 and hyper-bus based models:
- NWS-3470D
- NWS-3410
- NWS-3460
- NWS-3710
- NWS-3720
- R4000/4400 and apbus based models:
Supported Peripherals
- On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le)
- On-board SONIC ethernet interface (sn)
- On-board SONY CXD1185 SCSI interface (sc)
- On-board HP SPIFI3-SE SCSI interface (spifi)
- Most SCSI devices
- On-board Z8530 serial interface (zsc)
- keyboard (kb) and mouse (ms)
- NWB-253 framebuffer (fb) (text only)
- "XA" framebuffer on news5000 (xafb) (text only)
- NWB-5852A 100BaseTX ethernet interface (tlp)
Not Yet Supported
Models / Devices / Functions:
- IOP based systems (NWS-3800 series)
- R4600 based systems (NWS-4000 series; on going)
- internal floppy disk
- other framebuffers not listed above
- COMPAT_NEWSOS
- etc. etc.
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