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<title>NetBSD/newsmips</title>
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  <portabout>
   <para>
    NetBSD/newsmips is the port of NetBSD to SONY's MIPS based
    "NET WORK STATION" series.  <ulink url="history.html">More information</ulink>
    on these machines is available.
   </para>
   <para>
    NetBSD/newsmips port is based on NetBSD/{mips,pmax} and 4.4BSD Lite2.
   </para>
   <para>
    m68k based NEWS machines are supported by <ulink
    url="../news68k/">NetBSD/news68k</ulink> port.
   </para>
  </portabout>

  <portinfo>

    <portinfoitem>
      <ulink url="history.html">History of machines running
        NetBSD/newsmips and NetBSD/news68k</ulink>
    </portinfoitem>

    <portml name="newsmips">NetBSD's port to MIPS
        based Sony NEWS systems</portml>
    <portml name="mips">all of the MIPS-based NetBSD ports</portml>

    <portcurrentitem type="ftp"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="installnotes"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="ra"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="packages" packages-for="5.0"/>
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    <portcurrentitem type="netbsd-changes" />
    <portcurrentitem type="mirrors"/>
    <portcurrentitem type="cdroms"/>
    
    <portfutureitem type="changes"/>
    <portfutureitem type="snapshots"/>

    <portlinkitem>
        <ulink url="http://katsu.watanabe.name/doc/sonynews/model.html">SONY
        NEWS series specifications (in Japanese)</ulink>
    </portlinkitem>

  </portinfo>

  <portnews>
    <portnewsarchive/>
  </portnews>

  <portsection title="Supported System Models">
    <para>Currently only single CPU models are supported in
      NetBSD/newsmips.</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>R3000 and hyper-bus based models:
        <itemizedlist>
	  <listitem>NWS-3470D</listitem>
	  <listitem>NWS-3410</listitem>
	  <listitem>NWS-3460</listitem>
	  <listitem>NWS-3710</listitem>
	  <listitem>NWS-3720</listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
     <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>R4000/4400 and apbus based models:
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>NWS-5000</listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </portsection>
  
  <portsection title="Supported Peripherals">
    <para>
      <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>On-board LANCE ethernet interface (<emphasis>le</emphasis>)</listitem>
      <listitem>On-board SONIC ethernet interface (<emphasis>sn</emphasis>)</listitem>
      <listitem>On-board SONY CXD1185 SCSI interface (<emphasis>sc</emphasis>)</listitem>
      <listitem>On-board HP SPIFI3-SE SCSI interface (<emphasis>spifi</emphasis>)</listitem>
      <listitem>Most SCSI devices</listitem>
      <listitem>On-board Z8530 serial interface (<emphasis>zsc</emphasis>)</listitem>
      <listitem>keyboard (<emphasis>kb</emphasis>) and mouse (<emphasis>ms</emphasis>)</listitem>
      <listitem>NWB-253 framebuffer (<emphasis>fb</emphasis>) (text only)</listitem>
      <listitem>"XA" framebuffer on news5000 (<emphasis>xafb</emphasis>) (text only)</listitem>
      <listitem>NWB-5852A 100BaseTX ethernet interface (<emphasis>tlp</emphasis>)</listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </para>
  </portsection>

  <portsection title="Not Yet Supported">
    <para>Models / Devices / Functions:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>IOP based systems (NWS-3800 series)</listitem>
      <listitem>R4600 based systems (NWS-4000 series; on going)</listitem>
      <listitem>internal floppy disk</listitem>
      <listitem>other framebuffers not listed above</listitem>
      <listitem>COMPAT_NEWSOS</listitem>
      <listitem>etc. etc.</listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </portsection>

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