About NetBSD/atari
NetBSD/atari is the port of NetBSD to the Atari line of personal
computers. Development activity on NetBSD/atari continues at a speed
dependent on people's spare time. Currently, NetBSD/atari runs on
the TT030, Falcon and Hades. Experimental support is available for the
Milan.
Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/atari are available for
the 1.6.2 release and for
snapshots of NetBSD-current.
NetBSD/atari 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.
- 2003-04-21: 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.
- 2002-07-22: NetBSD 1.5.3 released
- NetBSD 1.5.3 released with
support for 20 architectures. More information is available in the
1.5.3 release
announcement.
- 2001-09-22: NetBSD/atari switches to ELF
- Thomas Gerner has committed changes to convert the
NetBSD/atari port to ELF. 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/atari ELF snapshot is available in the atari
snapshot area of the ftp server
(snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.6 was released on
2002-09-14).
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001-06-12: Experimental Milan kernels available
- Experimental Milan kernels are now available in the NetBSD/atari
snapshot
area of the ftp server.
Archive of NetBSD/atari news items
Supported Hardware
A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4MB RAM (of which 2MB
can be ST-RAM) and a SCSI or IDE disk. An FPU is not really
necessary because the BOOT and BOOTX kernels supplied in the
distribution both contain 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.
Hardware marked NEW!
is only supported in NetBSD-current. Other hardware is supported
in NetBSD 1.6.
- ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH
- Falcon video (except Direct Color - 15/16 bit depth)
- Hades et4000/w32-pci video adapter
- Hades et6000-pci and et6100-pci video adapter
- Builtin 5380 SCSI adapter
- Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM's, tape's and ZIP drives
- Realtime clock
- SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2)
- 720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive
- Parallel printer
- The IDE interface on both Falcon and Hades (Including ATAPI)
- The serial interface on the first 68901 UART (modem1)
- 68060 support for the Hades
- The Falcon FX memory expansion
- The atari mouse
- A 3-button mouse (see
build description)
- Supported VME-bus devices (TT030/Hades)
- VME BVME410 ethernet
- Circad Leonardo 24-bit VME graphics adapter
- Crazy Dots VME et4000 graphics adapter
- VME Riebl (and possibly PAM) ethernet
- Supported Hades PCI-devices
- Adaptec 2940U SCSI
NOT! (see
below).
- ESS Technology Inc. Solo-1 Soundcard
- 3Com 3c59x Network card
- Supported Hades ISA-devices
- I4BSD support for the teles 16.3 card
- NE2000 compatible cards
- Supported Milan PCI-devices
- Intel EtherExpress PRO 10+/100B
Beware!
- The Hades PCI bus is very critical. Many cards are not recognized.
This seems to be due to electrical problems.
- The current Adaptec driver does no longer work, unfortunately.
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