About NetBSD/ofppc
NetBSD/ofppc is the port of NetBSD to the OpenFirmware, and
CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) PowerPC
machines, and original implementation of NetBSD for the PowerPC processor.
NetBSD/ofppc News
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2010-12-31:
RDB partitioning supported
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The ofwboot boot loader and the kernel understand the RDB partitioning
format, which allows a Pegasos user to run NetBSD, MorphOS and
AmigaOS from the same disk.
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2008-01-17:
IBM 7044-270 Support added
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NetBSD/ofppc has been ported to the IBM 7044-270 (POWER3-II cpu).
The machine has a 64bit POWER3-II CPU, which is what the modern POWER4
and POWER5 chips were based on. Currently, NetBSD only runs on this
machine in 32bit mode. See the complete details in the
official announcement.
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2008-01-09:
New ofppc portmaster
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Tim Rightnour has taken over the role of portmaster for NetBSD/ofppc.
More details are available in the
official announcement.
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2007-12-10:
Rebirth of NetBSD/ofppc
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NetBSD/ofppc has been rewritten from the ground up, and is now once
again a viable, and supported port of NetBSD. The port now boots into
single user mode on a bplan/Genesi Pegasos II. More information, as
well as dmesg of the first boot, are available in
the announcement to port-ofppc.
Archive of NetBSD/ofppc news items
Supported System Models
Currently the following models are supported by NetBSD/ofppc:
- Genesi/bplan Pegasos II
- IBM 7044 Model 270
- IBM 7046 Model B50
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