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[20131020]
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Quick bootstrap of NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and Cobalt machines
NetBSD is a fine operating system, but the installation
sometimes leaves a lot of rope to hang yourself on non-PC
platforms. To make things easier to get a recent NetBSD
version on the Cobat Raq and Qube machines,
Izumi Tsutsui has
released a Restore CD/USB image based on NetBSD 5.2.1
that allows for a quick bootstrap.
There is also a
Restore CD HOWTO
available with more information.
If you're into somewhat more recent machines, the Raspberry Pi
is for you. For easy bootstrapping of NetBSD, Jun Ebihara
offers a SD card image
with -current NetBSD and pkgsrc from October 2013 preinstalled.
This also includes support for hardware floating point and DMA.
Instructions
are available on line in Japanese language.
The important commands still are readable, so have a look!
[Tags: cobalt, raspberrypi]
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[20131019]
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Raspberry Pi USB HC driver change - DMA support added
Nick Hudson
reports
that he has ``recently switched the Raspberry Pi kernel to dwctwo(4) a new USB drvier based on the Synopsys code. It's a more complete driver than the previous dotg(4) and has DMA support''.
Jun Ebihara
confirms
that the driver works fine with a dmesg extract, and also lets us
know that the driver will be in his next RPI image.
This change does not only affect the Raspberry Pi, but also
other machines that have a Synopsis USB like the
OpenBlocks 600, as KIYOHARA Takashi
lets us know.
[Tags: dmesg, raspberrypi, usb]
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[20131008]
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Google Summer of Code 2014
Yes, 2014 - Google today
announced the 10th anniversary
of its Summer of Code. NetBSD participation is still
being sorted out, but can be expected.
See
the blog post
and the
timeline
for more information.
First and foremost, use this early news to think
about possible projects, get familiar with NetBSD
(which you probably are if you read this), and
sort out your summer occupation 2014.
[Tags: google-soc]
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[20131008]
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Embedded NetBSD on iMX233/OLinuXino
Petri Laakso has
worked to get NetBSD
going on the
iMX233/OLinuXino
ARM board, specifically the MAXI and MICRO boards. The port is stable enough to run multiuser and build software from pkgsrc. Supported hardware include
SD card,
GPIO,
USB host, and
a boot loader.
The hardware is ways below 50 EUR, so this is a good start to
get a nice and easy machine. More information on how to get things
running are available
in Petri's blog.
Last, the impatient souls that can't wait to start playing can
find the code in NetBSD-current
already, thanks to Matt Thomas.
[Tags: arm, dmesg, imx233, olinuxino]
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[20130930]
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Bugfix releases NetBSD 6.1.2, 6.0.2 and others released
Jeff Rizzo
announces
that the
NetBSD 6.1.2 and NetBSD 6.0.3 patch releases
as well as the
NetBSD 5.2.1 and NetBSD 5.1.3 patch releases
are out. The releases contain security-only changes to the
two stable releases maintained by NetBSD in 6.0.3 and 5.1.3
as well as feature updates plus security fixes in 6.1.2 and 5.2.1.
Read the
NetBSD 6.1.2 and NetBSD 6.0.3 patch releases">6.x
and
5.x
release notes for more information.
[Tags: Releases]
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[20130813]
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onetbsd.org is fully back
www.onetbsd.org was started as an experiment to bring
alternative, community-provided NetBSD content. Technology-wise
it does this through RSS feed aggregation ran by Kimmo
Suominen on his machines, the domain is registered
and DNS provided by David Brownlee, and contents
come from a variety of NetBSD-related blogs' RSS feeds,
e.g. mine.
A couple of weeks ago, the DNS service was moved to a
different DNS provider, which led to some problems:
The IP adresses for the authoritative DNS servers
of the onetbsd.org zone were only IPv6 addresses,
no IPv4 addresses. Those (IPv6 enabled) DNS servers
did provide proper IPv4 (A) and IPv6 (AAAA) address records,
but only to the clients speaking v6 in the first place.
This led to funny effects that www.onetbsd.org worked
when on IPv6-enabled networks (which also had v4 enabled),
but not on IPv4-only networks. This was further aggravated by
the holiday season with not everyone reachable,
a longer-than-neccessary communication chain and
no direct access to all systems directly.
In the end things are changed back to working now
for both IPv4-only and IPv6-enabled networks again,
so be sure to keep watching www.onetbsd.org.
(And for those wondering where the domain name comes from:
it's from the kernel that doesn't lie :)
[Tags: onetbsd]
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[20130723]
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NetBSD on BeagleBone Black HOW-TO
NetBSD runs on a number of ARM platforms, and the
BeagleBone Black
is one of many such platforms. It comes with Linux by default,
and as such there are a few adventures to make if you want
NetBSD on it.
John Klos was brave, and has
collected his experiences in a "NetBSD on BeagleBone Black HOW-TO".
Please note that there's
an important update
that's needed to not nuke your MBR.
So, anyone got some cool toys they make with a
BeagleBone Black and NetBSD? Let me know!
[Tags: arm, beaglebone, Documentation]
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[20130712]
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Spanish translation of my "Managing NetBSD with Ansible" article
Maria Ramos from
Webhostinghub.com
offered to translate my
"Managing NetBSD with Ansible"
blog post for the spanish-speaking WebHostingHub community.
Due to this,
a
spanish translation of my article
is available now. Thanks Maria!
[Tags: ansible, spanish]
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[20130528]
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NetBSD's projects for Google's Summer of Code 2013 have been chosen
In this year's round of Google Summer of Code, we have again
received a number of project proposals by interested students.
After going into details and finding out what projects have a
chance to give both the NetBSD project and the student the most
benefit (besides the money), this is settled now, and I'm pleased
to announce that the following students and their projects are
our prospects for 2013:
- Julian Fagir: System upgrade (system_upgrade)
- Haomai Wang: Make NetBSD a supported guest OS under VirtualBox (Virtualbox)
- Manuel Wiesinger: Defragmentation for FFS in NetBSD (defrag_ffs)
- Myron Aub: Port Linux's drm/kms/gem/i915 (DRM2)
- Przemyslaw Sierocinski: Implement file system flags to scrub data blocks before deletion (fs_scrub_flags)
Of course all other students who have submitted proposals can feel
free to participate in NetBSD outside of the Summer of Code.
For those participating, this is the time for
the timeline.
[Tags: google-soc]
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[20130520]
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NetBSD 6.1 and 6.0.2 released
Following NetBSD's release scheme, two new releases are available now.
NetBSD 6.1 is the next release from the netbsd-6 release, and it
contains security fixes, bug fixes and some new feature.
NetBSD 6.0.2 is the second stability update for NetBSD 6.0, and
it also contains bugfixes and security fixes, but no new features.
See
the release map graph
on the NetBSD website for a visual representation of the relationship between releases.
Major news in 6.1 include:
- Security: prevent kernel panics via userland requests from kqueue, a random number generator update to prevent weak cryptographic keys and a vulnerability in grep.
- Networking: many updates to NetBSD's new packet filter npf, and improved SMP operations.
- Embedded: Raspberry Pi now has working USB and ethernet, support for the watchdog timer in some Marvell SoCs, fixes to the Kirkwood IRQ code
- Platforms: device driver for Hydra and ASDG Zorro2 bus network cards on Amiga, x68k's bootloader can now boot from CD and network, and dtrace support on amd64.
- Drivers: add LSI Thunderbolt (SAS2208) controllers, Apple's Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and improve stability with multiple concurrent file system snapshots.
... plus numerous bugfixes.
For more details see the release notes of
NetBSD 6.1
and
NetBSD 6.0.2.
NetBSD is a volunteer project ran by a non-profit organization
and with no commercial backing. As such, your donations are very important
to the project, and can fund developing in various areas, including:
- Improving network stack concurrency and performance.
- Development of modern file systems and improvement of existing ones.
- Features which are useful in embedded environments, such as high resolution timers and execute in place (XIP) support.
- Automatic testing and quality assurance.
For more information about donating, visit
http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/
The NetBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization in the US, and donations may be tax deductible.
[Tags: releases]
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