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About NetBSD/atari

NetBSD/atari is the port of NetBSD to the Atari line of personal computers. Development activity on NetBSD/atari continues at a speed dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/atari runs on the TT030, Falcon and Hades. Experimental support is available for the Milan.

Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/atari are available for the 4.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.

NetBSD/atari News

2006-11-04:   NetBSD 3.1 released
NetBSD 3.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-3 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures. More information is available in the 3.1 release announcement.
2006-05-09:   binary packages for m68k available

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

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released
NetBSD 3.0 released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.
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.
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.
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.

Archive of NetBSD/atari news items

Supported hardware

A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4MB RAM (of which 2MB can be ST-RAM) and a SCSI or IDE disk. An FPU is not really necessary because the BOOT and BOOTX kernels supplied in the distribution both contain FPU-emulation support. Although the current emulation does not yet cover the full MC68882 instruction set, you will see that you will get a very workable system.

  • ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH
  • Falcon video (except Direct Color - 15/16 bit depth)
  • Hades et4000/w32-pci video adapter
  • Hades et6000-pci and et6100-pci video adapter
  • Builtin 5380 SCSI adapter
  • Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM's, tape's and ZIP drives
  • Realtime clock
  • SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2)
  • 720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive
  • Parallel printer
  • The IDE interface on both Falcon and Hades (Including ATAPI)
  • The serial interface on the first 68901 UART (modem1)
  • 68060 support for the Hades
  • The Falcon FX memory expansion
  • The atari mouse
  • A 3-button mouse (see build description)

  • Supported VME-bus devices (TT030/Hades)

    • VME BVME410 ethernet
    • Circad Leonardo 24-bit VME graphics adapter
    • Crazy Dots VME et4000 graphics adapter
    • VME Riebl (and possibly PAM) ethernet

  • Supported Hades PCI-devices

    • Adaptec 2940U SCSI NOT (see the note below)
    • ESS Technology Inc. Solo-1 Soundcard
    • 3Com 3c59x Network card

  • Supported Hades ISA-devices

    • I4BSD support for the teles 16.3 card
    • NE2000 compatible cards

  • Supported Milan PCI-devices

    • Intel EtherExpress PRO 10+/100B

Note

  • The Hades PCI bus is very critical. Many cards are not recognized. This seems to be due to electrical problems.
  • The current Adaptec driver does no longer work, unfortunately.

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