NetBSD/mmeye 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 2000

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.

July 2000

2000-07-15: Progress on Dreamcast port: The port of the NetBSD operating system to Sega's Dreamcast game console is reaching a state where it's near to single user mode. Utilizing the NetBSD/evbsh3 port's simple structure and the fact that it supports both big and little endian architectures as well as the general clean design of the NetBSD operating system helped for this port. Device drivers for the game pad, keyboard etc. are next on the todo-list of Saitoh Masanobu, who works on this port.

April 2000

2000-04-14: gdb support: gdb is available. A single step isn't supported yet.

February 2000

2000-02-25: "Interface" magazine from CQ publishing: April 2000 issue of "Interface" magazine has several articles on NetBSD/sh3.
2000-02-24: SH4 support: SH4 support was contributed from Brains.

December 1999

1999-12-31: Binary snapshot available

1.4.1 Binary snapshot is available for the following configuration:

    ${MACHINE} == evbsh3
    base on 1.4.1 (not -current)
    coff

1999-12-31: GNU toolchain fixes

November 1999

1999-11-15: Start merging: mmEye (webcam with NetBSD/sh3) was demonstrated at Comdex NetBSD booth.

September 1999

1999-09-13: Start merging: Start merging NetBSD/sh3 tree into NetBSD CVS repository.

February 1999

1999-02: Start cleanup: Brains kindly made their NetBSD/sh3 diffs publically available. It was based on NetBSD-1.3.1. NetBSD-current synchronization and cleanup project was started and local repository was made.