NetBSD/dreamcast

About NetBSD/dreamcast  NetBSD/dreamcast is the port of NetBSD for the Japanese game console SEGA Dreamcast. NetBSD/dreamcast 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. 2003-08-24: Support for AICA sound system Ryo Shimizu has contributed a device driver for the AICA sound system that is capable of playing 2 channel sound. 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. 2002-12-27: Support for the SEGA LAN Adapter Support for the SEGA LAN Adapter is added, based on patch in port-dreamcast/17493 from Christian Groessler. 2002-11-15: New Maple bus drivers ITOH Yasufumi has rewritten Maple bus driver and has added support for memory card and monochrome LCD on the Maple bus. 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. 2001-02-02: Support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter Marcus Comstedt and Jason Thorpe have added support for the SEGA Broadband Adapter to the NetBSD/dreamcast port. This allows NetBSD/dreamcast to run from an NFS root file system. In addition to the Broadband Adapter, the keyboard and display console support has been improved. A session transcript from a telnet login to a Dreamcast running NetBSD on an NFS root is available. The kernel was loaded over the Broadband Adapter using Marcus' IP-slave boot loader. 2001-01-22: GD-ROM device driver working Marcus Comstedt has committed a working GD-ROM device driver. If you've burned a CD with NetBSD binaries, you can now type "gdrom0" when you get to the "root device" prompt (leave the dump device field empty, and type "cd9660" as file system). Archive of NetBSD/dreamcast news items Supported Peripherals  Builtin serial port (scif) PowerVR video controller (text and Xserver) (pvr) SEGA Broadband Adapter (HIT-0400) (rtk) SEGA LAN Adapter (HIT-0300) (mbe) Maple bus keyboard (mkbd) Maple bus mouse (mms) Maple bus memory card (mmem) Maple bus LCD (mlcd) GD-ROM drive (gdrom) AICA sound system (aica)

NetBSD/dreamcast Information NetBSD/dreamcast FAQ NetBSD/dreamcast HowTo Mailing Lists The NetBSD/dreamcast mailing list, covering NetBSD on the SEGA dreamcast: [ subscribe | archive ] The NetBSD/sh3 mailing list, covering all Hitachi Super-H (SH3/4) chips-based NetBSD ports: [ subscribe | archive ] Current Release NetBSD/dreamcast 2.0 via FTP NetBSD 2.0 release announcement NetBSD/dreamcast changes to 2.0 Changes from NetBSD 1.6 to NetBSD 2.0 NetBSD FTP Mirror Sites NetBSD on CD-ROM Future Releases NetBSD/dreamcast changes to 2.0 NetBSD/dreamcast binary snapshots of NetBSD-current Related Links Mail the NetBSD/dreamcast port maintainer NetBSD/sh3 architecture page

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