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o   About NetBSD/newsmips   o

NetBSD/newsmips is the port of NetBSD to SONY's MIPS based "NET WORK STATION" series. More information on these machines is available.

NetBSD/newsmips port is based on NetBSD/{mips,pmax} and 4.4BSD Lite2.

m68k based NEWS machines are supported by NetBSD/news68k port.

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o   NetBSD/newsmips News   o

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 releases
NetBSD 1.6.1 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.1 release announcement.
2003-04-21:   New -current snapshot available
A new -current snapshot based on 2003-04-19 sources is now available in the NetBSD/newsmips snapshot area of the ftp server.

Note this snapshot contains a fix of boot floppy problem on news3400 machines with serial console.
2002-09-14:   NetBSD 1.6 releases
NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.

Archive of NetBSD/newsmips news items


o   Supported System Models   o

Currently only single CPU models are supported in NetBSD/newsmips.

  • R3000 and hyper-bus based models:
    • NWS-3470D
    • NWS-3410
    • NWS-3460
    • NWS-3710
    • NWS-3720
  • R4000/4400 and apbus based models:
    • NWS-5000

o   Supported Peripherals   o

  • On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le)
  • On-board SONIC ethernet interface (sn)
  • On-board SONY CXD1185 SCSI interface (sc)
  • On-board HP SPIFI3-SE SCSI interface (spifi)
  • Most SCSI devices
  • On-board Z8530 serial interface (zsc)
  • keyboard (kb) and mouse (ms)
  • NWB-253 framebuffer (fb) (text only)
  • "XA" framebuffer on news5000 (xafb) (text only)
  • NWB-5852A 100BaseTX ethernet interface (tlp)


o   Not Yet Supported   o

Models / Devices / Functions:

  • IOP based systems (NWS-3800 series)
  • R4600 based systems (NWS-4000 series; on going)
  • internal floppy disk
  • other framebuffers not listed above
  • COMPAT_NEWSOS
  • etc. etc.
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