About NetBSD/pmax
NetBSD/pmax is the port of NetBSD to Digital Equipment
Corporation's MIPS based computers. NetBSD/pmax runs on
wide range of DECstation and DECsystem family. NetBSD/pmax
is the first port which can run on either MIPS R3000
processors or MIPS R4400 processors; single kernel can run
common set of user programs.
Development activity on NetBSD/pmax continues at a speed
depending of people's spare time. NetBSD/pmax developers
are making efforts on extending hardware supports to models
which NetBSD/pmax does not support this moment.
Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/pmax are available for
the 2.0 release and for
snapshots of NetBSD-current.
NetBSD/pmax 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.
- 2002-08-13: X server for unsupported option cards
- Andrew Doran has
made available
an experimental wscons X server and kernel for NetBSD/pmax. This is
useful for owners of PX, PXG or TX option cards who wish to use X11
on their DECstation.
- 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: New -current snapshot available
- A new -current snapshot based on 2001-09-20 sources is now available
in the NetBSD/pmax 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.
- 2001-09-02: New -current snapshot available
- A new -current snapshot based on 2001-08-31 sources is now available
in the NetBSD/pmax snapshot area of the ftp server.
(snapshot deprecated.
NetBSD 1.6 was released on
2002-09-14)
- 2001-08-26: NetBSD/pmax switched to MI SCSI
- Simon Burge has switched NetBSD/pmax -current from the old pmax MD
SCSI support to MI SCSI.
- 2001-08-24: Support for noncontinguous memory
- Michael L. Hitch has committed changes to NetBSD/pmax so that
it uses the PROM bitmap, if available, to determine available memory.
Also added was support of multiple memory segments so machines that allow
mixed memory sizes can utilitize all available memory.
- 2001-08-22: NetBSD/pmax now has GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS
- Thanks to Tohru Nishimura, NetBSD/pmax -current now provides
the generic software interrupt mechanism.
Archive of NetBSD/pmax news items
Supported System Models
- DECstation and DECsystem 2100 and 3100 systems
- DECsystem 5100 systems
- Personal DECstation 5000/20, /25, /33 and /50 systems
- DECstation and DECsystem 5000/120, /125, /133
and /150 systems
- DECstation and DECsystem 5000/200 systems
- DECstation and DECsystem 5000/240 and /260 systems
- DECsystem 5900 and 5900-260 systems
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