About NetBSD/news68k
NetBSD/news68k is the port of NetBSD to SONY's m68k based
“NET WORK STATION” series. More information on these
machines is available.
NetBSD/news68k port is based on NetBSD/newsmips and NetBSD/m68k ports.
NetBSD/news68k News
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2006-05-09:
binary packages for m68k available
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About 1000 packages built from the latest branch
pkgsrc-2006Q1 by Greg Oster are now available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/packages-2006Q1/NetBSD-3.0/m68k.
The packages can be used on all ports based on m68k.
For some more details, see Greg Oster's announcement
Archive of NetBSD/news68k news items
Supported system models
Currently only single mc68030 based models are supported in
NetBSD/news68k.
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NWS-1750
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PWS-1560
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NWS-1450
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NWS-1460
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NWS-1530
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NWS-1580
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PWS-1550
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NWS-1250 (not tested for many years; needs
volunteers)
Supported peripherals
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On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le(4))
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On-board SONY CXD1180 SCSI interface (si(4))
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Most SCSI devices
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keyboard (kb), mouse
(ms)
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On-board Z8530 serial interfaces (zsc(4))
(only serial console is supported because no working
framebuffer yet)
Not yet supported
Models / Devices / Functions
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mc68020 based systems (NWS-700/800)
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IOP based systems (NWS-800/1800)
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CXD1185 SCSI interface on NWS-1200
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internal floppy disk
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framebuffers (ongoing, but needs hardware
info)
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COMPAT_NEWSOS
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