About NetBSD/atari
NetBSD/atari is the port of NetBSD to the Atari line of personal
computers. Development activity on NetBSD/atari continues at a speed
dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/atari runs on
the TT030, Falcon and Hades. Experimental support is available for the
Milan.
NetBSD/atari News
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2010-04-01:
Support for the EtherNEC
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Support for the EtherNEC Ethernet
has been committed to
NetBSD-current.
The EtherNEC is an NE2000 based Ethernet device connected to
Atari's ROM cartridge slot, and it's the most available network solution
for the old Atari machines.
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2010-03-13:
Support for the SMC Elite Ultra ISA Ethernet card with SMC_TT VME-ISA bridge
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Support for the SMC
Elite Ultra Ethernet with the SMC_TT VME-ISA bridge
has been committed to
NetBSD-current.
The SMC_TT is the user designed “handmade” VME-ISA bridge
circuit for 16 bit VME slot on TT030 and the SMC Elite Ultra ISA
Ethernet card.
TT030 with SMC_TT and this driver have been also demonstrated on
the NetBSD booth in Open Source
Conference 2010 Kansai@Kobe.
See Demonstration GIF animation for TT030.
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2009-01-23:
Recent NetBSD/atari changes and fixes
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NetBSD/atari has seen several fixes lately, to bring it up and running again.
Summary of the recent changes are:
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ncr5380 SCSI driver works again (no freezing at probing)
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Ramdisk driver is now fixed (essential for installation)
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Installer and bootloader issues are now fixed
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Falcon kernel now supports 68060 CPU (CT60/63)
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Kernel configuration files are updated
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Interrupt handler issues are now fixed
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Amiga pmap changes are now pulled to Atari (required for yamt-km merge)
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Falcon IDE driver lost interrupt problem is fixed
Archive of NetBSD/atari news items
Supported hardware
A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4MB RAM (of which 2MB
can be ST-RAM) and a SCSI or IDE disk. An FPU is not really
necessary because the BOOT and BOOTX kernels supplied in the
distribution both contain FPU-emulation support. Although the
current emulation does not yet cover the full MC68882 instruction
set, you will see that you will get a very workable system.
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ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH
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Falcon video (except Direct Color - 15/16 bit depth)
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Hades et4000/w32-pci video adapter
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Hades et6000-pci and et6100-pci video adapter
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Builtin 5380 SCSI adapter
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Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM's, tape's and ZIP drives
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Realtime clock
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SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2)
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720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive
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Parallel printer
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The IDE interface on both Falcon and Hades (Including ATAPI)
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The serial interface on the first 68901 UART (modem1)
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68060 support for the Falcon (CT60/63)
and Hades
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The Falcon FX memory expansion
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The atari mouse
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A 3-button mouse (see build description)
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EtherNEC
Ethernet on ROM cartridge slot
(-current)
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Supported VME-bus devices (TT030/Hades)
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VME BVME410 Ethernet
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Circad Leonardo 24-bit VME graphics adapter
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Crazy Dots VME et4000 graphics adapter
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VME Riebl (and possibly PAM) Ethernet
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SMC Elite Ultra ISA Ethernet with SMC_TT VME-ISA
bridge (-current)
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Supported Hades PCI-devices
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Adaptec 2940U SCSI NOT (see the note
below)
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ESS Technology Inc. Solo-1 Soundcard
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3Com 3c59x Network card
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Supported Hades ISA-devices
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I4BSD support for the teles 16.3 card
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NE2000 compatible cards
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Supported Milan PCI-devices
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Intel EtherExpress PRO 10+/100B
Note
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The Hades PCI bus is very critical. Many cards are not
recognized. This seems to be due to electrical problems.
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The current Adaptec driver does no longer work,
unfortunately.
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