NetBSD/hp300

NetBSD/hp300 is the port of NetBSD to Hewlett-Packard's 9000/300-series of computers.

The History of NetBSD/hp300

NetBSD/hp300 is based on work done by David P. Davis at the University of California, Berkeley and the Systems Programming Group at the Univeristy of Utah Department of Computer Science, beginning in the mid-80's. It was imported into the NetBSD source tree on May 13, 1993. Complete binary sets were made for the NetBSD 1.0 and NetBSD 1.1 releases. Special thanks are extended to David and the Systems Programming Group for their work. Without it, the port would not exist.

Jason Thorpe is the maintainer of NetBSD/hp300.

Supported Hardware

NetBSD/hp300 has been tested on machines with as little as 7.5M of RAM. A minimal installation, less X and source, will fit on a 120M disk.

The following HP hardware is supported (NOTE: This may be a little incomplete.):

If you have a device that's not listed, it might be compatible with something else, or we might have simply forgotten it. If all else fails, maybe you could write a driver!

Supported Boot Options

NetBSD/hp300 currently supports booting from SCSI and HP-IB disks, HP-IB cartridge tapes, and local area network from a single boot program (SYS_UBOOT).

Major items lacking support in NetBSD/hp300 are:


There are several mailing lists associated with the hp300 port.

Go to an FTP site that carries NetBSD/hp300.


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