NetBSD/atari 1.2

NetBSD/atari 1.2 was the second formal release of NetBSD/atari. It runs on both the Atari-TT and Atari-Falcon. In the future, the MegaST-PAK/3 systems may be supported, but that largely depends on contributions from others.

The History of NetBSD/atari

The Atari port of NetBSD became available to the public in March 1995. The first formal release was NetBSD/atari-1.1.

Leo Weppelman was the maintainer of NetBSD/atari at the time of the 1.2 release.

Supported Hardware

A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4Mb RAM (of which 2Mb ST-RAM), an FPU and a SCSI-disk. There is currently a kernel available that contains FPU-emulation support. Although the current emulation does not yet cover the full mc68882 instruction set, you will see that you will get a very workable system.

On NetBSD/atari 1.2, the following devices are supported:

• ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH
• Falcon video (Only the mode active when NetBSD is started)
• TT-5380 SCSI adapter
• Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM drives, and tape drives
• Realtime clock
• SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2)
• 720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive
• Parallel printer

Software issues you might be interested in:

• X11R6

  There are several Xservers available for NetBSD/atari. For the Atari-TT, only monochrome is supported on both ST-HIGH and TT-HIGH video modes. For the Falcon there is also color support. The Xserver binaries can be found in the '-current' distribution of NetBSD/atari.

• Bootblocks

  NetBSD/atari allows you to install bootblocks on the NetBSD partitions allowing you to boot or reboot into NetBSD directly without going through TOS.

Additional information

Because there is still active development on NetBSD/atari, the list of systems and devices supported by the '-current' distribution is per definition larger than the list mentioned above. Examples of important additions are:

• Hades040 support
• Riebl+ VME support

If you have questions about NetBSD/atari, you can consult the FAQ or send your question to the port-atari mailing list.

If you're interested in NetBSD/atari you should use a more recent version.

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