About NetBSD/pmax
NetBSD/pmax is the port of NetBSD to Digital Equipment
Corporation's MIPS based computers. NetBSD/pmax runs on wide
range of DECstation and DECsystem family. NetBSD/pmax is the
first port which can run on either MIPS R3000 processors or MIPS
R4400 processors; single kernel can run common set of user
programs.
Development activity on NetBSD/pmax continues at a speed
depending of people's spare time. NetBSD/pmax developers are
making efforts on extending hardware supports to models which
NetBSD/pmax does not support this moment.
NetBSD/pmax News
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2002-08-13:
X server for unsupported option cards
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Andrew Doran made available an experimental wscons X server and kernel
for NetBSD/pmax. This is useful for owners of PX, PXG or TX option cards
who wish to use X11 on their DECstation.
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2001-08-26:
NetBSD/pmax switched to MI SCSI
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Simon Burge has switched NetBSD/pmax -current from the old pmax MD
SCSI support to MI SCSI.
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2001-08-24:
Support for noncontinguous memory
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Michael L. Hitch has committed changes to NetBSD/pmax so that
it uses the PROM bitmap, if available, to determine available memory.
Also added was support of multiple memory segments so machines that allow
mixed memory sizes can utilitize all available memory.
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2001-08-22:
NetBSD/pmax now has GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS
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Thanks to Tohru Nishimura, NetBSD/pmax -current now provides
the generic software interrupt mechanism.
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Supported System Models
- DECstation and DECsystem 2100 and 3100 systems
- DECsystem 5100 systems
- Personal DECstation 5000/20, /25, /33 and /50 systems
- DECstation and DECsystem 5000/120, /125, /133
and /150 systems
- DECstation and DECsystem 5000/200 systems
- DECstation and DECsystem 5000/240 and /260 systems
- DECsystem 5900 and 5900-260 systems
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