About NetBSD/acorn32  

NetBSD/acorn32 is a port to ARM- and StrongARM-powered Acorn RiscPC compatible machines and is maintained by Reinoud Zandijk (<reinoud>). The first formal release of NetBSD/acorn32 is 1.6. In earlier releases of NetBSD, these machines are supported by NetBSD/arm32.

The port first saw light as RiscBSD in 1994 and was later transformed into NetBSD/arm32. In 2001, the arm32 port was split into separate ports for the various supported hardware types. NetBSD/acorn32 was one of these.

Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/acorn32 are available for the 2.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.

NetBSD/acorn32 Information

• NetBSD/acorn32 FAQ
• History of NetBSD/acorn32

Mailing Lists

• The NetBSD/acorn32 mailing list, covering NetBSD on the Acorn Risc PC and compatible 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/acorn32 2.0.2 via FTP
• NetBSD/acorn32 2.0.2 Install Notes
• NetBSD/acorn32 1.6 pre-built binary packages via the NetBSD Packages Collection
• NetBSD 2.0.2 release announcement
• NetBSD/acorn32 changes to 2.0
• Changes from NetBSD 1.5 to NetBSD 1.6
• NetBSD FTP Mirror Sites
• NetBSD on CD-ROM

Future Releases

• NetBSD/acorn32 changes from from 2.0 to 3.0
• binary snapshots of NetBSD-current

Related Links

• NetBSD/arm32 port page
• Mail the NetBSD/acorn32 port maintainer

  NetBSD/acorn32 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.

2004-02-23:   NetBSD/acorn32's booter manpage submitted

Reinoud has finally added the manpage boot(8) for the bootloader. The current bootloader version is v3.10 in CVS.

2003-12-31:   Substantial rewrite of vidcaudio driver

Ben Harris has largely rewritten the vidcaudio driver, adding support for 16-bit audio on the ARM7500/ARM7500FE and generally making it work better.

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.

2003-01-05:   FAQ updated

The FAQ has been updated and been actualised. Added is the question how to boot an NC into NetBSD using the new boot32 bootloader.

2003-01-05:   Bootloader v3.01 has been released for testing

The acorn32 portmaster Reinoud Zandijk has released version 3.01 of the bootloader. This new bootloader is a complete rewrite and comes as a NetBSD compileable single RISC OS relocatable module and is capable of booting all supported machines including NC's. It's still in development but ought to work fine for all users. You can download the latest released version of the module boot32 and give it a try. Please report problems to the mailing list or to the portmaster.

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.

Archive of NetBSD/acorn32 news items

  Supported Computer Systems  

These are systems made by various computer manufacturers for which support as a whole exists.

Earlier ARM-based Acorn machines are supported by NetBSD/acorn26.

  People  

Core processor support was written by Mark Brinicombe (most of it) and Neil Carson (some of libkern and pmap, floating point emulators and libraries).

Support for Acorn platforms was written by Mark Brinicombe (most if it) with help from Scott Stevens (various device drivers), Melvin Tang Richardson (VIDC console), Mike Pumford (EtherH driver) and Andrew McMurry (Acorn FileCore filing system).

  Ongoing Work  

We invite you to examine the summary of current NetBSD/acorn32 problem reports.