About NetBSD/sandpoint
NetBSD/sandpoint is a port of NetBSD to the Motorola Sandpoint
reference platform.
The Sandpoint is a reference platform designed by Motorola to
help people develop hardware and software around various PowerPC
processors. The basic system is an ATX form-factor motherboard
with standard PC devices (IDE, floppy, serial, parallel), 4 PCI
slots, and a mezzanine slot to which several different processor
modules may be attached.
The main focus of this port is now on MPC824x based consumer NAS
(Network Attached Storage) systems, while the original evaluation
boards are still supported.
NetBSD/sandpoint News
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2012-04-24:
KuroBox/T4 and TS-TGL support
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The KuroBox/T4 and the TeraStation Pro TS-TGL with their special
miconV2 power management controller are now supported.
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2012-01-14:
Another NAS family supported
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Netronix NH-230/231 and compatible NAS systems (e.g. Allnet 6250/6260)
are completely supported now.
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2011-12-28:
New NAS supported
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The Iomega StorCenter G2 is supported.
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2011-11-12:
Altboot enhancements
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Altboot V1.8 supports new IDE devices (VT6410, IT821x) and NAS
hardware (Iomega). A critical bug was fixed and some new
debugging features were included.
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2011-04-05:
QNAP support
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Although already mentioned as being supported in the past, some bits
were missing, which had been fixed now: RTL 8110S driver in altboot
for V200 boards, s390rtc(4) driver, full support for the QNAP's
microcontroller, i.e. shutdown, reboot, buttons, LEDs.
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2011-03-19:
New NAS supported
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The D-Link DSM-G600 (Rev. B) is supported with all its devices.
Note that the revision A is ARM-based and therefore not supported.
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2011-03-13:
Altboot enhancements
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Our bootloader got an interactive mode, may be loaded as an U-Boot
Linux kernel image and can replace itself in memory. This allows
altboot to run on even the most restricted firmwares.
Support for more 824x-based NAS boards and a new network driver for
ST1023/IP-1000A gigabit ethernet (as found in the DSM-G600).
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2011-01-21:
New bootloader
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The new bootloader is called altboot and can
load the kernel via TFTP, NFS, or from the NetBSD root partition on
a local disk.
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2010-06-10:
Changed charter to focus on NAS products
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The primary hardware platform is now consumer NAS systems, running
on Freescale MPC8241 and MPC8245 CPUs. Initially the KuroBox/Linkstation
and the Synology product family is known to work. QNAP TS and Iomega
StorCenter support is prepared, but untested. Read also the
official announcement on port-sandpoint
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Archive of NetBSD/sandpoint news items
Supported System Models
- Allnet
- Buffalo
- LinkStation HD-HLAN (LS1)
- LinkStation HD-HGLAN
- Classic TeraStation HD-HTGL
- TeraStation Pro TS-TGL V1
- Conceptronic
- D-Link
- Encore
- Fujitsu-Siemens
- Iomega
- StorCenter G2 Single Drive
- StorCenter G2 Dual Drive
- StorCenter G2 Quad Drive
- KuroBox
- Classic KuroBox
- KuroBox HG
- KuroBox/T4
- LevelOne
- Lindy
- NAS Personal Server Premium, IDE
- NAS Personal Server Premium, SATA
- Longshine
- Netronix
- Planex
- QNAP
- TS-100 (V1.02, Intel Gigabit)
- TS-100 (V200, Realtek Gigabit)
- TS-101 (V1.02, Intel Gigabit)
- TS-101 (V200, Realtek Gigabit)
- TS-201
- SinanPower
- Synology
- DS-101g+
- DS-106
- DS-106e
- DS-106j
- DS-106x
- DS-107
- DS-107e
- DS-108j
- DS-109j
- DS-207
- DS-209j
- CS-406
- CS-406e
- RS-406
- CS-407e
- Vibe
- The Sandpoint evaluation board. Two processor modules have
been tested:
- The "Unity" module with the MPC8240
- The "Altimus" with MPC7400 (G4) and MPC107
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