NetBSD/Atari
NetBSD/Atari is the port of NetBSD to the Atari line of personal computers.
Currently, NetBSD/Atari runs on the TT030,Falcon and Hades. In the
future, the MegaST-PAK/3 systems may be supported, but that largely depends
on contributions from others.
The History of NetBSD/Atari
The Atari port of NetBSD became available to the public in March 1995.
The first formal release is NetBSD/Atari-1.1, the most recent formal
release is NetBSD/Atari-1.2.
Leo Weppelman is the maintainer of NetBSD/Atari.
Supported Hardware
A minimal system should have a 68030 CPU, 4Mb RAM (of which 2Mb ST-RAM) and
a SCSI-disk. An FPU is not really necessary because the BOOT and BOOTX kernels
supplied in the distribution both contain
FPU-emulation support. Although the current emulation does not yet cover
the full mc68882 instruction set, you will see that you will get a very
workable system.
Currently, the following devices are supported:
- ST and TT video modes, including TT-HIGH
- Falcon video (Only the mode active when NetBSD is started)
- Hades et4000/w32-pci video adapter
- Builtin 5380 SCSI adapter
- Most SCSI disks, CD-ROM's, tape's and ZIP drives
- Realtime clock
- SCC serial ports (serial2/modem2)
- 720Kb/1.44Mb floppy drive
- Parallel printer
Software issues you might be interested in:
- X11R6
There are several Xservers available for NetBSD/Atari. For the Atari-TT,
only monochrome is supported on both ST-HIGH and TT_HIGH video modes. For
the Falcon there is also color support. The Hades currently lacks X-support.
The Xserver binaries can be found in the '-current' distribution of
NetBSD/Atari.
- Bootblocks
NetBSD/Atari allows you to install bootblocks on the NetBSD partitions allowing
you to boot or reboot into NetBSD directly without going through TOS.
Current NetBSD/Atari whishlist:
- ACSI support
- Full PCI-bus support for the Hades
- IDE support for both the Falcon and Hades
There are several mailing lists associated with the Atari port.
Go to an FTP site that carries NetBSD/Atari.
Home Page
www@NetBSD.ORG
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