NetBSD/VAX
NetBSD/VAX is the port of NetBSD to DEC VAX computers. It currently
supports many different VAX CPUs, see below. There are a bunch
of different people working on the port.
The History of NetBSD/VAX
The port started in February 1994 when members of
Ludd, the computer society
at Luleå University (Luleå Tekniska Högskola),
in Sweden wanted to run another operating system than ULTRIX on
the VAX machines
we had recently acquired. For this purpose, two old VAX 11/750
were started and are even today used in the development of NetBSD/VAX.
The VAX port started (approximately) with
NetBSD 0.9
source code, but is now merged with the
NetBSD-current distribution.
Anders Magnusson
is the maintainer of NetBSD/VAX.
NetBSD/VAX FAQ
There is a
NetBSD/VAX FAQ
maintained by Gunnar Helliesen.
Supported Hardware
Hardware supported by NetBSD/VAX includes (but may not be limited to):
CPU
- VAX 11/750.
- VAX 11/780 - 11/785.
- VAX 8200/8250/8300/8350
- VAX 8600 - 8650.
- MicroVAX II Q-bus based systems (KA630).
- MicroVAX III - MicroVAX 3600/3800/3900
- MicroVAX 3300/3400/3500 Q-bus based systems (KA65x).
- MicroVAX 2000/VAXstation 2000 (KA410)
Networking
- DEUNA/DELUA Unibus ethernet cards.
- DEQNA/DELQA Q22 bus ethernet cards.
- Lance ethernet in VS2000.
Serial lines
- DHU11/DHV11 Unibus/Q22 bus card.
- DZ11/DZQ11/DZV11 Unibus/Q22 bus card.
- DZ11-compatible serial lines on VS2000.
Disks
- UDA50 Unibus MSCP controller.
- KDA50/RQDX1/2/3 Q22 bus MSCP controller.
- KDB50 BI-bus MSCP controller.
- MFM ctlr on VS2000.
- SCSI ctlr on VS2000.
- Emulex UC07, SDC-RQD11 and SQ706 MSCP emulating controllers.
- Emulex UC04, QD21 and Dilog DQ656 does not work, due to buggy hardware.
- Massbus disks (RP04/05/06/07).
- RM02/03/05/80 may also work, but has not been tested.
- Console RL02 on VAX 8600
Tapes
- DILOG Q22 bus tape ctlr w/ Exabyte. (TMSCP emulating).
- TSV05 Q22 bus tape ctlr.
- SCSI tape on VS2000.
- TK50 (TMSCP) on Q22 bus.
- Other TMSCP controllers may also work, but haven't been tested.
Only relevant files from old Berkeley VAX distributions are included in
the source. If you want to look at other files, get them from your
nearest ftp site with a 4.4BSD-Lite distribution, or from
ftp://ftp.luth.se:/pub/OS/4.4BSD_Lite/.
Major items often asked about, but not yet supported include:
- Graphic screen on VS2000.
- VAXstation 3100.
More information
What more is there to know? We think we have most the hardware and
manuals we need. More are always welcome, though. Apart from that, Ragge
needs more time. All donations are accepted.
There are mailing lists associated with the VAX port.
Home Page
www@NetBSD.ORG
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