About NetBSD/acorn26  

NetBSD/acorn26 is the port of NetBSD to ARMv2 and ARMv2a machines, primarily the Acorn Archimedes, A-series and R-series systems. These systems pre-date those supported by NetBSD/arm32 and use an earlier, incompatible version of the ARM architecture.

Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/acorn26 are available for the 2.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.

NetBSD/acorn26 Information

• NetBSD/acorn26 TODO list
• NetBSD/acorn26 Unsupported Hardware

Mailing Lists

• The NetBSD/acorn26 mailing list, covering NetBSD on ARM2 and ARM3 based machines:
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• The NetBSD/arm mailing list, covering all of the ARM-based NetBSD ports:
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Current Releases

• NetBSD/acorn26 2.0.2 via FTP
• NetBSD/acorn26 2.0.2 Install Notes
• NetBSD 2.0.2 release announcement
• NetBSD/acorn26 changes to 1.6
• Changes from NetBSD 1.5 to NetBSD 1.6
• NetBSD FTP Mirror Sites
• NetBSD on CD-ROM

Future Releases

• NetBSD/acorn26 changes from from 2.0 to 3.0
• binary snapshots of NetBSD-current

Related Links

• NetBSD/arm32 port page
• Mail the NetBSD/acorn26 port maintainer

  NetBSD/acorn26 News  

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.

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.

2003-10-15:   arm port Xscale optimizations

Steve Woodford announced that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. Please see his message to the port-arm Mailing List for details.

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.

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.

2001-12-08:   New -current snapshot available

A new -current snapshot based on 2001-12-07 sources is now available in the NetBSD/arm26 snapshot area of the ftp server. (snapshot deprecated. NetBSD 1.6 was released on 2002-09-14)

2001-09-12:   Minimal Econet support

NetBSD-current now includes minimal support for Econet interfaces. At the moment, there are no protocols implemented on top of Econet, so its usefulness is rather limited. This will change.

2001-07-28:   New bootloader

Ben Harris has committed a new bootloader, with support for gzipped kernels, to NetBSD/arm26. See Ben's announcement in the port-arm26 mail archive for more details.

2001-05-31:   boot with local root

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has gotten support for booting with root on a local disk.

2001-05-28:   DMA in HCCS SCSI driver

Ben Harris (bjh21@NetBSD.org) has committed support for the pseudo-DMA facilities of the HCCS SCSI podule. This gets speed up to 300 KB/s.

Archive of NetBSD/acorn26 news items

  Supported System Models  

Note that NetBSD/acorn26 requires at least 8 Mb of RAM. Systems with less memory than this will not currently work.

  Supported Peripherals  

On new machines: