NetBSD/bebox news archive

2001-04-11: 1.5.1_BETA snapshot available

A NetBSD/bebox 1.5.1_BETA snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-04-06, is now available in the NetBSD/bebox snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

2001-03-12: Linux compatibility enabled for PowerPC ports

Emmanuel Dreyfus has integrated Linux binary compatibility for PowerPC ports. This means that NetBSD/bebox should now be able to run LinuxPPC binaries such as Netscape Communicator.

2001-02-12: Some recent changes to NetBSD/bebox

Allen Briggs has added the ex driver (3Com 3c90x[BC]) to NetBSD/bebox, and used it for an NFS-based boot. This requires configuring the PCI bus at boot time, which requires the PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE option to exist in your kernel configuration file.

Also, in addition to the tested 3Com card, all PCI devices supported under NetBSD/macppc should now work. Please tell the folks at the port-bebox if you have any problems.

SCSI support is under development.

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.

1999-06-28: Cross Compile

Add cross compile environment.

1999-06-28: mkbootimage

Add mkbootimage to make bootable floppy disk for NetBSD/bebox.

See Description of making bootable floppy disk for NetBSD/bebox.

1998-11-23: New snapshot

NetBSD-current-19981119 binary snapshot

1998-11-18: PCI frame buffer

Support PCI frame buffer(pfb) console initialized by the BootRom of the BeBox.

Added distrib,etc files of the bebox port.

1998-09-30: New homepage

New bebox port homepage.

1998-09-02: UVM

Switch to the UVM virtual memory system.

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