NetBSD/sparc64 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.

June 2005
2005-06-06: X support complet
Finally we can now declare our X support complete. The current tree contains working support for cgsix (sbus) framebuffers, ffb/afb (UPA) framebuffers and ATI based (pci) vga chipsets. This code has been (or will be) pulled up to the 3.0 branch in time for the upcoming 3.0 release.

April 2005
2005-04-29: Switch to wscons complete
Sparc64 now uses the generic wscons framework. This is good news for users of usb keyboard machines and a big step forward to complete X server support. See the announcement on the port-sparc64 mailinglist for details.

February 2005
2005-02-17: Sleep sleeps forever no more
We believe that Chuck Silvers recently fixed the famous sleep-sleeps-forever bug in -current. A pullup to the 2.x branch will be requested after some additional testing. See the commit message and corresponding problem report for details.

December 2004
2004-12-09: NetBSD 2.0 released
NetBSD 2.0 released with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement.

June 2004
2004-06-22: Booting from root on RAID 1 fixed
A simple bug in the bootblock forth code has been fixed so now booting from a root file system on a Raid Frame RAID 1 device is possible. The setup is very easy: just follow the instructions, ignoring everything i386 specific like MBRs.

March 2004
2004-03-01: NetBSD 1.6.2 released
NetBSD 1.6.2 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement.

April 2003
2003-04-21: NetBSD 1.6.1 released
NetBSD 1.6.1 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.1 release announcement.

March 2003
2003-03-07: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2003-03-07 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

February 2003
2003-02-07: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2003-02-07 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

September 2002
2002-09-14: NetBSD 1.6 released
NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.

May 2002
2002-05-11: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2002-05-11 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.


March 2002
2002-03-28: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2002-03-28 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2002-03-17: Ultra5/10 audio support added
Valeriy E. Ushakov has added audio support for the Ultra5 and Ultra10 machines, both play and record are supported.


December 2001
2001-12-05: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2001-12-05 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.


September 2001
2001-09-13: NetBSD 1.5.2 released
NetBSD 1.5.2 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.2 release announcement.

August 2001
2001-08-23: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2001-08-21 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2001-08-05: Non-faulting load support
Eduardo Horvath has added support for non-faulting loads and, also, for new memset/memcpy routines that use VIS instructions.

July 2001
2001-07-11: NetBSD 1.5.1 released
NetBSD 1.5.1 released with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in the 1.5.1 release announcement.

May 2001
2001-05-19: 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot available
A NetBSD/sparc64 1.5.1_BETA2 snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources as of 2001-05-18, is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on July 11th, 2001)

February 2001
2001-02-26: NetBSD/sparc64 LKMs now work
Matthew Green has committed a tiny change to <sys/lkm.h> to fix LKM's on the NetBSD/sparc64 port. To take advantage of this, you will need to rebuild your kernel and modload(1) with the fixed <sys/lkm.h>. Trying to load a LKM on an old kernel will cause a panic, and using an old modload(1) will return ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device).

Update: This has been pulled into the netbsd-1-5 branch, so it will be available in NetBSD 1.5.1.

2001-02-10: New COMPAT_SVR4_32 option
Eduardo Horvath has added a COMPAT_SVR4_32 option to NetBSD-current. By including it in your kernel configuration file, you can have compatibility for 32-bit SVR4 binaries in NetBSD/sparc64.

2001-02-04: New netbsd32_compat14 and netbsd32_compat15 packages
Matthew Green has added the netbsd32_compat14 and netbsd32_compat15 packages to pkgsrc. These two packages contain 32-bit NetBSD/sparc a.out (netbsd32_compat14) and elf (netbsd32_compat15) shared libraries. They can be used to add compatibility for dynamically linked a.out and elf executables, compiled under NetBSD/sparc, to NetBSD/sparc64.

January 2001
2001-01-14: New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2001-01-14 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

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.


November 2000
2000-11-17: New NetBSD/sparc64 -current snapshot
A new snapshot based on 2000-11-14 sources is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

2000-11-15: 1.5_BETA2 snapshot
A NetBSD/sparc64 1.5_BETA2 snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

October 2000
2000-10-27: 1.5_BETA snapshot
A NetBSD/sparc64 1.5_BETA snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-10-20: UltraSPARC SBus ethernet fixed
The long-standing problem with UltraSPARC SBus ethernet (both LANCE and HappyMeal) has been fixed by Eduardo Horvath.

August 2000
2000-08-23: First 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot
The first NetBSD/sparc64 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on December 6th, 2000)

2000-08-19: New snapshot available
A new snapshot based on 2000-08-14 -current sources is available in the NetBSD/sparc64 snapshot area of the ftp server.

July 2000
2000-07-26: Experimental shared library snapshot
Charles Hannum has uploaded an experimental snapshot with shared libraries. This is just a big tar file of the whole installation, with a kernel in /netbsd. The snapshot is located at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/incoming/mycroft/sparc64.tgz. More information on the snapshot is available in Charles' message in the port-sparc64 mail archive.

2000-07-16: Enterprise 250 system support
Paul Kranenburg has mostly completed UltraSPARC I & II PCI support. The Enterprise 250 now reaches multi-user mode.

2000-07-04: Ultra5/10 and AXi
Ultra 5/10 and AXi have reached multi-user mode, with many onboard devices now supported, including PCI IDE, Happy Meal Ethernet (hme) and 'glm' SCSI.

February 2000
2000-02-23: NetBSD/sparc64 projects
Eduardo Horvath has put together a list of projects for the NetBSD/sparc64 port on which people could best help.

November 1999
1999-11-24: Ultra1/2
Sbus slot interrupt problems fixed - sbus cards should now work correctly.

June 1999
1999-06-04: Ultra5/10
Initial Ultra5/10 configuration committed - still work under development.

January 1999
1999-01-23: First announcement
NetBSD/sparc64 announced to the world

1999-01-15: First binary snapshot
First binary snapshot available!

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