NetBSD/acorn26 news archive
November 2005
- 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.
December 2004
- 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.
March 2004
- 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.
April 2003
- 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.
September 2002
- 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.
December 2001
- 2001-12-08: New -current snapshot available
- A new -current snapshot based on 2001-12-07 sources is now available
in the NetBSD/arm26
snapshot
area of the ftp server.
September 2001
- 2001-09-12 Minimal Econet support
- NetBSD-current now includes minimal support for Econet interfaces.
At the moment, there are no protocols implemented on top of Econet, so
its usefulness is rather limited. This will change.
July 2001
- 2001-07-28 New bootloader
- Ben Harris has committed a new bootloader, with support for gzipped
kernels, to NetBSD/arm26. See Ben's announcement in the port-arm26
mail archive for more details.
May 2001
- 2001-05-31 boot with local root
- Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has gotten
support for booting with root on a local disk.
- 2001-05-28: DMA in HCCS SCSI driver
- Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has committed
support for the pseudo-DMA facilities of the HCCS SCSI podule.
This gets speed up to 300 KB/s.
December 2000
- 2000-12-30: eh(4) driver
- A new driver for i-cubed EtherLan 100-, 200-, and 500-series Ethernet
cards is available.
October 2000
- 2000-10-13: New snapshot available
- A new snapshot based on 2000-10-05 -current sources is now available
in the NetBSD/arm26 snapshot
area of the ftp server.
July 2000
- 2000-07-23: Ether3 driver
- The ea driver for SEEQ 8005-based Ethernet cards (usually
known as Ether3s) is now
minimally usable.
- 2000-07-20: FOURMEG kernel
- The 20000714 snapshot now includes an additional kernel configuration,
FOURMEG
, which I hope will be small enough to boot
on systems with 4Mb of RAM.
- 2000-07-16: 20000714 binary snapshot
- The first proper binary snapshot of NetBSD/arm26 has been uploaded.
See the
announcement on
port-arm26
for details.
- 2000-07-13: arm26 cross compiler in pkgsrc
- The
NetBSD package system now contains a set of cross-build tools
for NetBSD/arm26 in the cross/armv2-netbsd package.
May 2000
- 2000-05-09: arm26 port committed
- The arm26 port has now been merged into the main NetBSD source tree.
Well, mostly, anyway.
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