NetBSD/sparc64 news archive

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.

2005-06-06: X support complet

Finally we can now declare our X support complete. The current tree contains working support for cgsix (sbus) framebuffers, ffb/afb (UPA) framebuffers and ATI based (pci) vga chipsets. This code has been (or will be) pulled up to the 3.0 branch in time for the upcoming 3.0 release.

2005-04-29: Switch to wscons complete

Sparc64 now uses the generic wscons framework. This is good news for users of usb keyboard machines and a big step forward to complete X server support. See the announcement on the port-sparc64 mailinglist for details.

2005-02-17: Sleep sleeps forever no more

We believe that Chuck Silvers recently fixed the famous sleep-sleeps-forever bug in -current. A pullup to the 2.x branch will be requested after some additional testing. See the commit message and corresponding problem report for details.

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.

2004-06-22: Booting from root on RAID 1 fixed

A simple bug in the bootblock forth code has been fixed so now booting from a root file system on a Raid Frame RAID 1 device is possible. The setup is very easy: just follow the instructions, ignoring everything i386 specific like MBRs.

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.

2003-03-07: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2003-03-07 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2003-02-07: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2003-02-07 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2002-09-14: NetBSD 1.6 released

NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.

2002-05-11: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2002-05-11 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2002-03-28: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2002-03-28 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2002-03-17: Ultra5/10 audio support added

Valeriy E. Ushakov has added audio support for the Ultra5 and Ultra10 machines, both play and record are supported.

2001-12-05: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-12-05 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2001-09-13: NetBSD 1.5.2 released

NetBSD 1.5.2 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.2 release announcement.

2001-08-23: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-08-21 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2001-08-05: Non-faulting load support

Eduardo Horvath has added support for non-faulting loads and, also, for new memset/memcpy routines that use VIS instructions.

2001-07-11: NetBSD 1.5.1 released

NetBSD 1.5.1 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.1 release announcement.

2001-05-19: 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot available

A NetBSD/sparc64 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-05-18, is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

2001-02-26: NetBSD/sparc64 LKMs now work

Matthew Green has committed a tiny change to <sys/lkm.h> to fix LKM's on the NetBSD/sparc64 port. To take advantage of this, you will need to rebuild your kernel and modload(1) with the fixed <sys/lkm.h>. Trying to load a LKM on an old kernel will cause a panic, and using an old modload(1) will return ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device).

Update: This has been pulled into the netbsd-1-5 branch, so it will be available in NetBSD 1.5.1.

2001-02-10: New COMPAT_SVR4_32 option

Eduardo Horvath has added a COMPAT_SVR4_32 option to NetBSD-current. By including it in your kernel configuration file, you can have compatibility for 32-bit SVR4 binaries in NetBSD/sparc64.

2001-02-04: New netbsd32_compat14 and netbsd32_compat15 packages

Matthew Green has added the netbsd32_compat14 and netbsd32_compat15 packages to pkgsrc. These two packages contain 32-bit NetBSD/sparc a.out (netbsd32_compat14) and elf (netbsd32_compat15) shared libraries. They can be used to add compatibility for dynamically linked a.out and elf executables, compiled under NetBSD/sparc, to NetBSD/sparc64.

2001-01-14: New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-01-14 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2000-12-06: NetBSD 1.5 released

NetBSD 1.5 released with support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5 release announcement.

2000-11-17: New NetBSD/sparc64 -current snapshot

A new snapshot based on 2000-11-14 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2000-11-15: 1.5_BETA2 snapshot

A NetBSD/sparc64 1.5_BETA2 snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-10-27: 1.5_BETA snapshot

A NetBSD/sparc64 1.5_BETA snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-10-20: UltraSPARC SBus ethernet fixed

The long-standing problem with UltraSPARC SBus ethernet (both LANCE and HappyMeal) has been fixed by Eduardo Horvath.

2000-08-23: First 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot

The first NetBSD/sparc64 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-08-19: New snapshot available

A new snapshot based on 2000-08-14 -current sources is available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2000-07-26: Experimental shared library snapshot

Charles Hannum has uploaded an experimental snapshot with shared libraries. This is just a big tar file of the whole installation, with a kernel in /netbsd. The snapshot is located at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/incoming/mycroft/sparc64.tgz. More information on the snapshot is available in Charles' message in the port-sparc64 mail archive.

2000-07-16: Enterprise 250 system support

Paul Kranenburg has mostly completed UltraSPARC I & II PCI support. The Enterprise 250 now reaches multi-user mode.

2000-07-04: Ultra5/10 and AXi

Ultra 5/10 and AXi have reached multi-user mode, with many onboard devices now supported, including PCI IDE, Happy Meal Ethernet (hme) and 'glm' SCSI.

2000-02-23: NetBSD/sparc64 projects

Eduardo Horvath has put together a list of projects for the NetBSD/sparc64 port on which people could best help.

1999-11-24: Ultra1/2

Sbus slot interrupt problems fixed - sbus cards should now work correctly.

1999-06-04: Ultra5/10

Initial Ultra5/10 configuration committed - still work under development.

1999-01-23: First announcement

NetBSD/sparc64 announced to the world

1999-01-15: First binary snapshot

First binary snapshot available!

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