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NetBSD/newsmips
About NetBSD/newsmips
NetBSD/newsmips is the port of NetBSD to SONY's MIPS based "NET WORK STATION" series. More information on these machines is available.
THe NetBSD/newsmips port is based on NetBSD/{mips,pmax} and 4.4BSD Lite2.
m68k based NEWS machines are supported by the NetBSD/news68k port.
Release Info
- NetBSD/newsmips 10.0 via download
- NetBSD/newsmips 10.0 ISO
- NetBSD/newsmips 10.0 INSTALL notes
- NetBSD/newsmips 10.0 changes
- NetBSD/newsmips 11.0 changes
Mailing List
The NetBSD/mips mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to mips machine: [ subscribe | archive ]
Mail the NetBSD/mips port maintainer
Supported Hardware
Supported System Models
Currently only single CPU models are supported by 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
Supported Peripherals
- On-board LANCE ethernet interface (le(4))
- On-board SONIC ethernet interface (sn(4))
- On-board SONY CXD1185 SCSI interface (sc(4))
- On-board HP SPIFI3-SE SCSI interface (spifi)
- Most SCSI devices
- On-board Z8530 serial interface (zsc(4))
- keyboard (kb) and mouse (ms)
- NWB-253 framebuffer (fb) (text only)
- "XA" framebuffer on news5000 (xafb) (text only)
- NWB-5852A 100BaseTX ethernet interface (tlp(4))
Unsupported Hardware
Not Yet Supported
Models / Devices / Functions:
- IOP based systems (NWS-3800 series)
- R4600 based systems (NWS-4000 series; ongoing)
- internal floppy disk
- other framebuffers not listed above
- COMPAT_NEWSOS
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