About NetBSD/sgimips
NetBSD/sgimips is a port of NetBSD to the MIPS processor based
computers by Silicon Graphics.
NetBSD is the world's first Open Source operating system running
on Silicon Graphics O2.
NetBSD/sgimips 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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2004-07-11:
Working driver for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2
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Support for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on IP32 (O2) is committed.
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2004-07-08:
wscons support for Indigo in-tree
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wscons support with GR2 graphics controller and z8530 based
keyboard/mouse on IP20/IP12 (i.e. Indigo machines) is now in-tree.
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2004-04-11:
IP12 support in-tree
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IP12 support (4D/30, 4D/35, Indigo R3k) is now in-tree. See Antti
Kantee's message
for details.
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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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2003-12-31:
Indigo (IP20) support in-tree
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Indigo (IP20) support is now in-tree. Both NFS root and local root go
multi-user. See Christopher Sekiya's message
for details.
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2003-12-15:
newport and console attachment committed
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Ilpo Ruotsalainen has committed a driver for SGI NG1 (``newport'')
graphics controller. See his email
for details.
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2003-10-15:
O2 support now functional again
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O2 (IP32) support is now functional again by fixes contributed by
Christopher SEKIYA. Support for R10000 based O2 is also added.
Archive of NetBSD/sgimips news items
Supported System Models
- IP12 machines
- Indigo (R3000)
- 4D/30 (theoretical/untested)
- 4D/35
- IP20 machines
- IP22 machines
- Indigo2 (R4400)
- Challenge S
- IP24 machines
- Indy (R4400, R4600, R5000)
- IP32 machines
- O2 (R5000, RM5200, R10000, R12000)
Supported Peripherals
- On-board Z8530 serial interface (zsc)
- On-board SEEQ 80c03 ethernet interface (sq)
- On-board WD33C93 SCSI interface (wdsc)
- On-board HAL2 audio interface (haltwo)
- On-board AIC7880 wide SCSI interface on O2 (ahc)
- On-board NS16550 based serial interface on O2 (com)
- On-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2 (mec)
- On-board framebuffer on Indy (newport)
- On-board PC-style keyboard/mouse on Indy (pckbc, pckbd, pms)
- On-board framebuffer on Indigo (grtwo)
- On-board Z8530 based keyboard/mouse on Indigo (zsc, zskbd, zsms)
- Most MI PCI devices
- MI SCSI devices
Not Yet Supported
Models / Devices / Functions:
- R10000 Power Indigo2 (IP28) (on-going)
- Octane (IP30) (required mips64 toolchain)
- L2 cache on machines with R4600 CPU
- framebuffers not listed above
- etc. etc.
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