About NetBSD/sandpoint

NetBSD/sandpoint is a port of NetBSD to the Motorola Sandpoint reference platform.

Sandpoint is a reference platform designed by Motorola to help people develop hardware and software around various PowerPC processors. The basic system is an ATX form-factor motherboard with standard PC devices (IDE, floppy, serial, parallel), 4 PCI slots, and a mezzanine slot to which several different processor modules may be attached.

The main focus of this port is now on MPC824x based consumer NAS (Network Attached Storage) systems, while the original evaluation boards are still supported.

Release Info

• NetBSD/sandpoint 10.0 via download
• NetBSD/sandpoint 10.0 ISO
• NetBSD/sandpoint 10.0 INSTALL notes
• NetBSD/sandpoint 10.0 pre-built binary packages from pkgsrc
• NetBSD/sandpoint 10.0 changes
• NetBSD/sandpoint 11.0 changes

Mailing List

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

Mail the NetBSD/sandpoint port maintainer

Supported Hardware

Supported System Models

• Allnet

  • 6250
  • 6260 [1]

• Buffalo

  • LinkStation HD-HLAN (LS1)
  • LinkStation HD-HGLAN [1]
  • Classic TeraStation HD-HTGL [1]
  • TeraStation Pro TS-TGL V1 [1]

• Conceptronic

  • CH3WNAS [1]

• D-Link

  • DSM-G600, Rev. B

• Encore

  • ENNHD-1000 [1]

• Fujitsu-Siemens

  • AMS150 [1]
  • SBLAN2

• Iomega

  • StorCenter G2 Single Drive
  • StorCenter G2 Dual Drive [1]
  • StorCenter G2 Quad Drive [1]

• KuroBox

  • Classic KuroBox
  • KuroBox HG [1]
  • KuroBox/T4

• LevelOne

  • FNS-5000B [1]

• Longshine

  • LCS-8311 [1]

• Netronix

  • NH-230 [1]
  • NH-231 [1]

• Planex

  • NAS-01G [1]

• QNAP

  • TS-100 (V1.02, Intel Gigabit) [1]
  • TS-100 (V200, Realtek Gigabit)
  • TS-101 (V1.02, Intel Gigabit) [1]
  • TS-101 (V200, Realtek Gigabit)
  • TS-201

• Synology

  • DS-101g+
  • DS-106 [1]
  • DS-106e [1]
  • DS-106j
  • DS-106x [1]
  • DS-107 [1]
  • DS-107e [1]
  • DS-108j [1]
  • DS-109j [1]
  • DS-207
  • DS-209j
  • CS-406 [1]
  • CS-406e [1]
  • RS-406 [1]
  • CS-407e

• Vibe

  • NS-349-S [1]

• The Sandpoint evaluation board. Two processor modules have been tested:

  • The "Unity" module with the MPC8240
  • The "Altimus" with MPC7400 (G4) and MPC107

[1] Support is present, but this configuration was not tested, or not reported working yet. Please tell us on the NetBSD/sandpoint mailing list about your experience with untested models.

Additional Info

• Synology DiskStation Installation Guide
• Buffalo LinkStation Installation Guide
• D-Link DSM-G600 Installation Guide
• QNAP Turbo Station Installation Guide
• Iomega StorCenter Installation Guide
• Netronix NH230/231 Installation Guide