NetBSD/mvmeppc

About NetBSD/mvmeppc

NetBSD/mvmeppc is the port of NetBSD to Motorola's PowerPC VME Single Board Computers (SBC). The first Motorola SBC (68k-based) was introduced in 1988. Motorola has continued development on 68k and PowerPC based SBC VME modules.

Development activity on NetBSD/mvmeppc continues at a speed that depends on people's spare time and access to hardware. NetBSD runs on a subset of the now obsolete MVME160x family of PowerPC-based MVME boards, but support for more recent boards will be added as and when hardware becomes available to NetBSD developers.

NetBSD/mvmeppc News

2008-10-13:   NetBSD 4.0.1 released

NetBSD 4.0.1 has been released. More information is available in the 4.0.1 release announcement.

2007-12-19:   NetBSD 4.0 released

NetBSD 4.0 has been released. More information is available in the 4.0 release announcement.

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.

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.

2002-02-27:   NetBSD ported to Motorola MVMEPPC Single Board Computers

Thanks to a donation of two MVME160x boards (and a third "loaner") by Gan Starling, a port to Motorola's MVMEPPC Single Board Computers has been made possible.

NetBSD/mvmeppc is currently able to boot to multi-user on an MVME1603-051 board as a diskless NFS client. Work is in progress to add support for booting from disk.

Archive of NetBSD/mvmeppc news items

Supported Single Board Computer Modules

Boot Options

Supported:

Unsupported: