NetBSD/news68k

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.

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.

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.

Currently only single mc68030 based models are supported in NetBSD/news68k.

On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le(4))
On-board SONY CXD1180 SCSI interface (si(4))
Most SCSI devices
keyboard (kb), mouse (ms)
On-board Z8530 serial interfaces (zsc(4)) (only serial console is supported because no working framebuffer yet)

Models / Devices / Functions

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