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.
Takeshi
Shibagaki has committed
IDE drive support to -current. So far this is known to work on
Quadra 630 series and PowerBook 150 series machines. It has not yet
been tested on other systems.
March 2002
2002-03-25: NetBSD/mac68k switches to ELF
NetBSD/mac68k is now using ELF as its native object file format in -curr
ent.
With the COMPAT_AOUT_M68K kernel option, all your old a.out binaries should
still work. Note that a.out versions of ifconfig(8)
and route(8) will not work due to some structure
alignment problems.
A NetBSD/mac68k ELF snapshot is available in the mac68k
snapshot
area of the ftp server. Also available are
instructions
for upgrading to ELF from this snapshot or from source.
NetBSD 1.5.1 released
with support for 21 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.5.1 release
announcement. Update 07/12: NetBSD/mac68k 1.5.1 release
binaries are now available.
A NetBSD/mac68k 1.5.1_BETA snapshot, based off of 1.5.1 sources
as of 2001-04-06, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k
snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5.1 was released on
July 11th, 2001)
A NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_BETA2 snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
October 2000
2000-10-26: 1.5_BETA snapshot
A NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_BETA snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-10-14: Fifth 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot
The fifth NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-10-07: Fourth 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot
The fourth NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
September 2000
2000-09-27: Third 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot
The third NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-09-05: Second 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot
The second NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-09-01: First 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot
The first NetBSD/mac68k 1.5_ALPHA2 snapshot is now available in the
NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
August 2000
2000-08-09: Sixth 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
The sixth mac68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources
as of 2000-08-05, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area
of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-08-02: Fifth 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
The fifth mac68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources
as of 2000-07-29, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area
of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
July 2000
2000-07-30: SMC ethernet support added
Support for SMC-based nubus ethernet cards, including the AsanteFAST
10/100 card, has been added.
2000-07-27: Fourth 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
The fouth mac68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources
as of 2000-07-22, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area
of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-07-20: Third 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
The third mac68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources
as of 2000-07-16, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area
of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-07-14: First 1.4.3_ALPHA snapshot
The first mac68k 1.4.3_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.4.3 sources as of
2000-07-06, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k
snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.4.3 was released on
November 25th, 2000)
2000-07-12: Second 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
The second mac68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources as of
2000-07-08, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area
of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
2000-07-05: First 1.5_ALPHA snapshot
The first mac68k 1.5_ALPHA snapshot, based off of 1.5 sources as of
2000-07-01, is now available in the NetBSD/mac68k snapshot area
of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.5 was released on
December 6th, 2000)
A new version of Mkfs (the NetBSD installation utility for
making filesystems under the Mac OS) was posted at:
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/installation/.
The major change in this version allows a clean installation
of NetBSD over an old Linux install. Sources for this version
are also available.
June 1999
1999-06-27: Alternate interrupt scheme for Quadras
At least some of the 68040-based macs have an alternate
interrupt mapping that can be enabled--this is now enabled,
much improving the clock skew for these machines.
1999-06-26: Quadra 900/950 serial console
The Quadra 900 and Quadra 950 are usable from the serial
console as of today.
May 1999
1999-05-30: FPE updated
The 68881/68882 floating point emulator fixes from PR 7220
(submitted by Ken Nakata) have been applied. The FPE should
be fully functional for the 020 and 030 systems, but is expected
to still have some problems on the LC040. Contributions welcome.
1999-05-12: NetBSD-1.4 released
The NetBSD 1.4
release supports sixteen architectures, and was distributed
free by Usenix to all 1999
ATC attendees.
February 1999
1999-02-18: Floppy support
800KB floppy support added.
October 1998
1998-10-30: MS-DOS partitions
Integrate IBM-compatible MBR handling to enable MS-DOS partition
support.
1998-10-23: ADB update
Revamp Apple Desktop Bus support.
August 1998
1998-08-16
Binary snapshot released.
1998-08-12
Minor overhaul of grf device support and interrupt handling.
1998-08-06
BSD/mac68k Booter 1.11.3 released.
July 1998
1998-07-23
New X binary snapshot released.
1998-07-06
Fix hang on reboot problem with older II-series machines.
June 1998
1998-06-08
Enable Comm-slot Ethernet cards on the 580/588 models.
May 1998
1998-05-04
NetBSD/mac68k -current is now built with UVM; the new, vastly
improved virtual memory system.
February 1998
1998-02-23
Add support for the LC/Performa 580/588 models.
1998-02-20
Fix for ADB probe hanging problem on older II-series machines.
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