About NetBSD/sun2

NetBSD/sun2 is the port of NetBSD to the Sun Microsystems sun2 series of computers, which are based on the Motorola 68010 CPU with a Sun-designed custom MMU. Sun sold these computers as both servers and desktop workstations from the early to mid 1980's. They were superseded by the sun3 systems, which are supported by NetBSD as NetBSD/sun3.

Release Info

• NetBSD/sun2 10.1 via download
• NetBSD/sun2 10.1 ISO
• NetBSD/sun2 10.1 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/sun2 10.1 changes
• NetBSD/sun2 11.0 changes

Mailing List

The NetBSD/sun2 mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to sun2 machine: [ subscribe | archive ]

Mail the NetBSD/sun2 port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Supported System Models

The following systems are supported:

• Sun2 Multibus machines:
  • Sun 2/120
  • Sun 2/170
  • Sun 1/100U (serial console only)

Supported Hardware

NetBSD/sun2 currently supports the following hardware:

• 1 bpp framebuffer, Multibus card (bwtwo(4))
• 10 Mbps Intel 82586 ethernet, Multibus card (ie(4))
• 10 Mbps 3Com 3c400 ethernet, Multibus card (ec(4))
• 5 MB/s Sun-2 SCSI controller, Multibus card (Interrupt driven and polled DMA) (sc(4))
• All on-board and optional serial ports
• Most input devices (keyboards, mice, trackballs)

System Models Not Supported

NetBSD/sun2 does not currently support the following hardware:

• Sun2 VME machines:
  • Sun 2/50
  • Sun 2/130
  • Sun 2/160

Additional Info

• NetBSD/sun3 is NetBSD's port to Sun's 68020 and 68030 based machines

• The Machine Emulator(tme) can emulate a Sun 2/120 running NetBSD.

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